Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles drafted his counterattack and took it to the President, who gave it his enthusiastic endorsement. At his press conference, Dulles lashed out: "We do not propose to throw away those precious assets [of mutual respect and friendship] by blustering and domineering methods." Other free nations, he said, will be treated "as sovereign equals" and not as "our satellites." To dramatize the point to McCarthy's Wisconsin constituents. Dulles warned that Milwaukee and other cities "would be sitting ducks for atomic bombs" without early-warning radar "facilities in the friendly countries which are nearer the Soviet Union...
...left only the somewhat rhetorical question of who is in charge of the Republican Party, Dwight Eisenhower or Joe McCarthy. The President answered the question: "I am convinced that those who fight for the program that I shall soon submit to the Congress will deserve and will receive the respect and support of the American people...
...circulation, the morning Cleveland Plain Dealer (285,540) and evening Cleveland Press (310,858) run almost neck and neck. But in one other respect the Plain Dealer is no match for the Press; Press Editor Louis B. Seltzer is Cleveland's leading citizen, its biggest civic and political power, and an all-round asset to the Press which the Plain Dealer has never tried to match. Last week the Plain Dealer made its first try. As its new editor, the Plain Dealer named Wright Bryan, 48, tall (6 ft. 5 in.), civic-leading editor of the Atlanta Journal...
...tells the truth. A patrol goes out and wanders around most of a day without meeting the enemy. In the end there is more than a little shooting, and the patrol captures a hill. Producer Hal Wallis uses a straight documentary style, which is sometimes effective. Unfortunately, in his respect for facts he often forgets to respect his characters or his audience-as when the camera shows two piteously mangled corpses of enemy soldiers, then looks on with firm approval while one of the victors spits on the dead...
...political bias did not allow that degree of generosity. She was in New York less than two weeks when she observed: "The very resemblance of democracy was fading here from day to day." After almost three months in the U.S., however, she wrote: "Respect for the human being and the principles that guarantee his rights is solidly anchored in the hearts of the citizens. With them, one finds a truly democratic atmosphere, and it is this which makes the country so attractive at first sight." She could also rise to such shaky heights of enthusiasm as, "One of the virtues...