Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though he complains that the U.N. has been too weak, Knowland is fearful lest it become stronger. He fears that the U.S. Constitution might become diluted by participating in an organization some of whose members have no respect for free institutions. Said Knowland: "Lest we be gradually edged into such a world state before we learn too late wherein we have been taken, I believe that every candidate for public office . . . should be asked to give a forthright view on this great public issue. It is later than you think...
...correct conclusions," i.e., to proceed with all possible speed toward the development of an H-bomb. Teller's account minimizes his own part in that development far beneath the credit given him by other scientists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer. Says Teller: "I want to claim credit in one respect only. I believed and continued to believe in the possibility and the necessity of developing the thermonuclear bomb." Wholly aside from his theoretical contributions, this is Teller's lien upon the gratitude of his countrymen, that he was not diverted from the path of scientific advance by confusion over...
...Against him, the organization had 48 of the 50 Democratic ward bosses, 30,000 well-oiled precinct workers, and endorsements from both U.S. Senator Paul Douglas and the nation's top Democrat, Adlai Stevenson, who broke his own rule against taking sides in primaries because of "my personal respect and friendship" for Dick Daley, Director of Revenue in Stevenson's administration...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has maintained all along that the rearmament vote need not prevent-in fact might even encourage-Russian attempts to negotiate with the West. Strength, he argued, is what the Russians respect. Last week everything pointed to Adenauer's essential rightness. At 79, and still carrying a burden that might cripple a man half his age, the indomitable old Chancellor had made his mark on history. Almost singlehanded, in the face of ruthlessly hard and skillfully soft Soviet pressure, in the face of French letdowns and Socialist opposition at home, he delivered to the West the long...
...matter of scholarship than character. As he laughingly explains, "The Puritans wouldn't approve of the life I led then, and I'm sure they wouldn't approve of the life I'm leading now. The fact that I like a cocktail before dinner doesn't make me respect Jonathan Edwards any less. I can respect him without accepting his theology...