Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite its perilous beginnings, the Khrushchev visit had turned out substantially to the U.S.'s advantage. In his second week he had won grudging respect for his energy and his drive, if not for his heavyhanded, oft-reiterated message...
...reported on a frank exchange of opinion and an agreement that "the question of general disarmament is the most important one facing the world today." Then came the key message on Germany. "On the question of Germany, the positions of both sides were expounded. With respect to the specific Berlin question, an understanding was reached, subject to the approval of the other parties concerned, that negotiations would be reopened with a view to achieving a solution...
...touch of grass growing on the informal stairway entry to the dramatic cantilever of the council hall, within which is the visitors' balcony overlooking the town council chamber. Wood, which the Finns call "green gold," is used exuberantly in the playful trusses in the roof and with caressing respect in the solid red pine furniture specially designed by Aalto for the interiors. Aalto can also be intensely practical, as he is in his design for the Lutheran Church at Vuoksenniska, finished earlier this year. Knowing the problems of funerals during the hot Finnish summers, he installed a refrigerator with...
...public tax-supported higher educational opportunity in an amount that will enable all students with limited means but intellectual potential and motivation, to realize that potential to the utmost." Thus, the state university directly attempts to attract students that could not afford a private education--and in this respect the public and private colleges are complementary...
Jimmy is a furious, destructive, viciously witty and deeply troubled young man (rather like Hamlet), with few concessions made to the sensibilities of a family audience; and yet (again like Hamlet) he elicits a paradoxical sympathy and respect. His subtle three-cornered relationship with his wife Alison and their friend Cliff is still credible and touching, though much less deeply probed than in the play...