Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every other respect, gelid Liu Shao-chi is the perfect Communist-a mechanical man who comes close to realizing his own dictum: "A party member is required to sacrifice his interests to the party unconditionally." Even the public appearances intended to humanize him invariably take on a grim tone. When a small child cut its hands tending potato vines in a commune, Liu's reaction was hard advice: "Do not be scared by a little blood." And when a Communist bureaucrat, whom he was lecturing on the need for working-class experience, observed, "There are still people who regard...
...Turkey would say only that the transfers were "for the good of the Air Force." But Colonel Moss made things a bit more explicit. Though his Air Force career was at stake, he said, he felt he had to testify in the brutality trial "to retain my self-respect...
Twilight Zone (CBS, Fri. 10-10:30 p.m., E.D.T.) is the sort of show that is rare on TV: a half-hour of dramatic entertainment with no pretensions beyond a fresh idea presented by people with a decent respect for the medium and the audience. Playwright Rod (Patterns) Serling's stories of the "fifth dimension, between science and superstition," are plotted as carefully as his more ambitious 90-minute specials and are written, acted, directed with consistent competence. Whether the hero is an Air Force officer suffering hallucinations after more than 400 hours of isolation, or a tired...
...college then they ought to have it to buy curtains. Here on Linnean Street, parading around so every Tom and Harry passing by can get his fill. They ought to do something about it. Maybe the people who run the place are the ones. How can a guy respect colleges when stuff like this goes on? It's no treat for me, you know. I mean it's a joke...
Swinging around to the dealers, Cole travels about 100,000 air miles a year. He has won their respect and hearty backing by listening to their problems, trying to correct one of their big complaints-poor assembly-line workmanship. He likes to inspect the Chevies in showrooms and on the lots, peers under hoods, checks the chrome, looks hard for water leaks. On occasion, he has flown in a team of engineers from Detroit to replace all faulty parts. Time and again, dealers give him their highest possible accolade; they bubble that "when Ed Cole talks to you, he makes...