Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Education story on "group dynamics": it's men like Educationists jeep and Hollis who are mostly responsible for our youngsters' lack of interest in science, mathematics, languages and other subjects, and who, if they continue to dominate public education, will cause this country to lose the respect of the rest of the world...
...containing chlorates and perchlorates, are extremely dangerous. Instead of burning gradually, they are apt to detonate like dynamite. Another dangerous compound is ammonium nitrate, which is sold as fertilizer. When mixed with certain other things, it is a violent explosive, and even by itself it should be treated with respect. The explosion of two shiploads of it wrecked Texas City in 1947, with a loss of 512 lives...
...long generation now." Dobie began, "the professional educators in America have been holding school without much respect for cultivated mind.' All the public school superintendents and a great many college presidents hold degrees in education spelled with a capital E. They are johnny-on-the-spot wilh Rotary Club optimism, football teamwork. Dedication-to-America Week, and such as that: but many of them don't know [a thing] when it comes to a real teacher of English, history, geology or any other branch of knowledge. Despite their degrees and positions, they are puerile-minded. Nearly...
...game was actually somewhat of a farce because the varsity was such a better team in every respect. Toward the end of the final period, when the outmanned Jumbo squad began to tire, the Crimson simply formed its plays around the opposition's blue line without any interference. The Tufts team would then congregate in front of its goalie, Dave Wilson, and do its best to beat off the attack...
...still best described as chairman of the gang. And to control such a gang, as Nikita well knows, takes far more political skill than Stalin ever required. Khrushchev's Russia needs its thinking men?its scientists and its technicians?and Khrushchev must allow them to think. They demand respect. They can do without Khrushchev, but Khrushchev cannot do without them. Within the party there may be younger men who will overtake him when he slows or stumbles. But in 1957, Nikita Khrushchev outran, outfoxed, outbragged, outworked and out-drank them...