Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only one respect is the statement about lack of progress correct, and that is in describing the Turkish position. Whereas five years ago Turkey said next to nothing about Cyprus, the issue is now considered important enough for the Turkish foreign minister to make the trip to the UN this year to put forth his country's claim personally. It is hoped, however, that the Turks can be persuaded to see that their true interest lies in dropping their ridiculous claim for partition (even the British have ruled partition out as unfeasible) and instead of further exacerbating the situation...
Never had one of Lois' releases invoked such attention from newsmen. Sniffed the American Motel Magazine: "The lowest form of humor." Fumed Executive Editor Bill Powell of the Paducah (Ky.) Sun-Democrat: "If you birds have no more respect for your place, or no more judgment than this, please stop sending us stones." Mused amused Columnist Stan Windhorn of the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune: "In sheer honesty, we must express an admiration for this curious bit of candor, but from the practical point of view we must confess that it seems a terribly long...
...pleased them less. Lebanon's Charles Malik, president of the U.N. General Assembly, and Carlos Romulo, Philippine Ambassador to Washington, both declared that the U.S. is losing prestige in the eyes of other nations. Malik said that "the number of countries which either vote against or abstain with respect to texts sponsored or supported by the U.S. has been on the increase in recent years." Said Romulo, a longtime friend of the U.S.: "The once ingrained belief in the Asian mind of the invincibility, the superiority and the invulnerability of the West is gone, forgotten." The U.S., he said...
...purging of the anti-feminists is half forgotten by university administrators who are already enamored of the emerging sexless society. Today we are all egalitarians, convinced, as Mary McCarthy has put it, that women must be as badly educated as men if they are to retain their self-respect...
...What I am pleading for, and what I would like to get help in pleading for throughout the country, is respect for law," Eisenhower told a news conference yesterday...