Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testing of hydrogen bombs has continued because Eisenhower has been stopped by the untenable technical point of inspection. In Suez, the President was content merely to prove America's good intentions; if he and Dulles had any settlement which would satisfy the British and French and retain a respect for Egypt's rights, they certainly did not press...
...protesting against the lowering of admission requirements resulted in the resignation of six others (TIME, June 15, 1953), finally handed down its verdict. "A state university," said the committee, "is neither an army nor a factory; its president is neither a general nor a businessman. The lack of respect for the faculty under the present administration has not only impaired faculty morale and effectiveness, but has damaged the national reputation of the university itself." Recommended the educators: "the restoration of faculty participation in the making of educational policy...
Ever since Franklin Roosevelt was President, the inside dope of Washington Columnist Drew Pearson has often been flatly contradicted by the White House-and by the facts. Once President Truman publicly called him an "s.o.b."* Last week Columnist Pearson, who has less respect for facts than Walter Winchell, set a record even for him; he provoked a bristling White House denial a day before his column saw print. Burden of the column: "It will be vigorously denied," but President Eisenhower "apparently suffered a mild relapse" on his way to the Minneapolis airport during his mid-October Western campaign trip...
...latter-day journalists, and he wonders querulously what the modern young reporter does with all his leisure: "I get the impression from the modern reporter that he doesn't really like his work. He wishes he were a druggist. The idea of a newspaper reporter with any self-respect playing golf is to me almost inconceivable. I hear that even printers now play golf. God Almighty, that's dreadful to think of." Other Mencken shafts...
...hoarding the sovereigns of greater men. Life with Mary circumscribed his sense of proportion and drove him into what he called "depressions, black as a smith's beard." Praised by his friends for his courage and devotion, he only answered tersely: "I stink in the midst of respect." Only Mary's misfortunes could lessen the pain of his own -which is why a wit named them "Gum Boil and Toothache," each being "a great relief" to the other...