Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their grandparents has become hypersensitive to relatively minor perils. Biochemist Bruce Ames of the University of California, Berkeley, points out that naturally occurring carcinogens in many foods -- cabbage, broccoli and oranges -- are much more potent than traces of man-made pesticides. "Most of us are more secure with respect to basic survival than we were a generation ago," says Ann Fisher, manager of the EPA's Risk Communication Program. "We're now in a position where we look with fear at what might once have been thought of as less serious dangers...
When I argued that values such as community, charity and respect for the law were more important than the number of night clubs, she stared at me as if I were from Mars...
When I occasionally play Hank Williams, Jr. tunes in my room, my Harvard friends get a pretty good laugh. Hank sings about such ignorant, redneck things, you see. Things like the injustice of killers getting off free; the dignity of gainful labor; fear of violent crime; having respect for the flag. Really stupid stuff...
Cela's flippant disdain for authority -- of whatever sort -- earned him the respect of exiled Spaniards who might otherwise have excoriated him for his allegiance in the civil war. In later years his fierce independence won increasing regard. He was among those, after Franco's death, who were asked to write a new Spanish constitution. Beyond that, his best novels, with their violent, poetic hyper-realities, affirmed a tradition that stretches from Cervantes to Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
Melrose was a major force for the Crimson defense last season, earning All-ECAC honors and the respect--and in many cases the fear--of every forward in the league...