Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oliver Eastland. There can be no doubt that he consciously exploits the tensions created by the Supreme Court's anti-segregation decision to advance his political fortunes. ("As far as Jim and segregation are concerned," says an Eastland aide, "none shall walk before him.") In almost every other respect, however, 51-year-old Jim Eastland is a far cry from the traditional Southern demagogue...
Throughout his stay in India, Dulles repeatedly made the point that the areas of agreement between Indian democracy and U.S. democracy were wider than the areas of disagreement. "You all know," he said, "that in our country there is nowhere anything but the greatest regard and respect and affection for India . . . We differ on some matters, but that is characteristic of free peoples...
...Effrontery." As he has done all along, the President spoke out strongly on behalf of his Vice President. "I will promise you this much," he said, "that if anyone ever has the effrontery to come in and urge me to dump somebody that I respect as I do Vice President Nixon, there will be more commotion around my offices than you have noticed yet. Second, I have not presumed to tell the Vice President what he should do with his own future. I have told him this: I be lieve he should be one of the comers in the Republican...
...Holmes, Food & Cooking, Shakespeare, Spelling, Boxing & Jazz. They had made up their minds to quit as soon as they hit $16,000, but when they found that the $32,000 question would be on English literature-their specialty-they decided "we couldn't have 2? worth of self-respect...
...Moscow, he knows what that eyeful was. Every page of Secrets is dotted with the stock characters of romantic fiction-dashing lieutenants, gallant generals, evil-faced spies and slimy turncoats-but Saint-Laurent trots them out with verve, gives them real jobs to do. The most dignified historian might respect Saint-Laurent's dramatic, spine-freezing account of Boney's awful homeward trudge, which would teach most schoolboys a lot more than they would get from most textbooks. Unfortunately, the frequent appearances of Caroline, strangling her ravishers with whips and pointing loaded pistols at them from her naked...