Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tell yourself that you don't know about Russia, or that it is not pertinent in this course, your personal integrity is never at stake. But once you decide to investigate Russia with your students, it is much harder to lie to them without losing your self-respect...
Undoubtedly, the Tigers will treat the varsity with greater respect tonight than they did last Friday, when the Crimson threw a real scare into their feline hearts before falling by a close 61-56 score, the closest, in fact, any Ivy team had come to beating them until Dartmouth shel lacked them, 71 to 59, the following night at Hanover...
...document, expressing interest in the proposed meeting but stressing lack of information. "The question is how ecumenical will the council be in composition and in spirit?" The committee advanced its own version of ecumenical cooperation: "Progress toward unity is made when churches meet together on the basis of mutual respect and with a full commitment on the part of each church to the truth of the Gospel, to charity and to a faithful interpretation of its deepest convictions...
...wonder that by this time (he was 16) Rothstein had won the respect and almost the affection of Tammany Hall's East Side boss, "Big Tim" Sullivan. Rothstein went to work for Big Tim as a kind of errand boy, and began to show the wisdom he was later to express so clearly: "If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best...
Arnold Rothstein was a dedicated man. His clothes were plain and neat. He drank nothing stronger than milk, had a fierce respect for "good" women, including his wife. He would boast to friends about his wife's fidelity, liked phoning her from nightspots, when she was asleep at home, and bleating: "Sweetheart, I want you to tell Tom 'hello' "-after which he would pass over the receiver for Tom to hear for himself the little woman's sleepy, saintly squeaks...