Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend Lincoln Gordon [former U.S. ambassador to Brazil, and presently Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America], who way very effective, and I consider him one of the best friends that Brazil has had up to now--I like him as a person very much and I respect him very much--but I think he should do something to show that the American government has nothing to do with the military regime in Brazil, that it is not necessarily a must for your policy to support any kind of regime, not even good ones, but even less, bad ones
...rising confusion about national purpose can undermine mutual trust and respect among our people. This seems to us as urgent a problem as any that confronts the nation today...
...betray his duty and then betray the woman he loves, there is no good in the man.' Thus, although he may keep his throne if he 'renounces' Mrs. Simpson, he will have lost the respect of his subjects...
...conviction grew in the creative writing course that he taught at Manhattan's Walden School. There, Lewis developed a profound respect for the spontaneity and grace with which youngsters can compose poetry. In 1964, he spent ten months on a tour of English-speaking countries that took him through the British Isles, Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Canada and most of the United States. From schools, from the secret notebooks of children too shy to recite, and from the mouths of children too young to write, he collected 3,000 poems or almost-poems, the best...
...meticulous worker, he often spends all day receiving visitors, then works far into the night to catch up on his backlog of paper work. His ascetic self-discipline and brilliance as a back-room negotiator have put him in firm command of his party and won him the grudging respect of opposition leaders. Franz Josef Strauss, Bavaria's powerful Christian Socialist leader, calls him the "most important man in German politics...