Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return? Nehru & Co. expressed great pleasure at the trade pact's preamble, to wit: respect for each other's "territorial integrity" and "noninterference" in each other's domestic affairs. Nehru expected that Red China would thereby relax its border pressure, and Indians happily believe him. "Another step to consolidate our friendship with China," said the Indian Express. "A triumph of diplomacy," glowed the Hindustan Times...
...working with him in the English department have a great respect for Bate which is not entirely academic. Says one of the English tutors, 'With his keen, very enthusiastic opinions on many authors and problems in the whole field of English, I am always surprised by his readiness to listen to the most absurd idea. Even when that idea is pressed in heated discussion, Bate will not lose his temper, as subjective as he may feel about the given subject...
Even though he has lost to a great extent his undergraduate awe of Harvard, Bate still feels a healthy respect for the University, and cannot quite reconcile himself to his position. For some years, he admits, he felt like Huckleberry Finn at the mansion of the Widow Douglas, afraid that anything he touched or tried would bring a reprimand from authority...
Hooton won the respect and friendship of those who worked with him. Said Clyde K. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, last night, "He was certainly the leading physical anthropologist in the United States, and posibly in the world. A very high proportion of physical anthropologist in this country and abroad were trained by him. On top of being a great scientist he was a fine human being--one of the finest I've known...
Mark Clark learned what negotiators with the Communists have always learned: that the only argument they respect is force. He rattles no sabres but neither does he harbor any illusions. Like all decent men, he was glad that "the armistice had ended the killing. But when I signed the armistice, I knew, of course, that it was not over-that the struggle against Communism would not be over in my lifetime. The Korean war was a skirmish, a bloody, costly skirmish, fought on the perimeter of the free world...