Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech was notably unpolitical. Speaking from sparse notes printed on cards, he delivered not a tub-thumping pep talk but an earnest "account of what has been going on in Washington." The Administration's "great objective," he said, is to create "a government whose honor at home commands respect abroad." Other notes...
...Bowron (as he claims) is "The Nation's Most Respected Mayor" [April 20], such respect must be centered east of the Rockies in the vicinity of TIME'S editorial offices. We have never had the "habit" of respecting highhanded political "tactics" here...
...Jewish sociologist and the Irish playground director were the bishop's right & left hands in the late !30's when he set out to fight Communism among the tough, discontented unemployed of Chicago's stockyards. The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council brought democracy and self-respect into an explosive situation. The packers, who at first did not like the unionization that went with it, learned to be grateful for the bishop's work...
...using a special TV camera, gave an experimental demonstration of 3-D television. After a halting start (it was discovered that the pictures at the receiving end were reversed and spectators had to turn their Polaroid glasses around), the performance rivaled movie 3-D in almost every respect. But it is generally conceded that 3-D television is still years away from the living room...
...word. In 1863 Thomas W. Knox, correspondent of the New York Herald, wrote a story blaming the failure of an attempt to outflank the Confederate defenders of Vicksburg on Sherman's faulty disposition of troops. The general's orders were so confused, wrote Knox, that "discussion . . . with respect to his sanity was revived with great earnestness." This was too much for Sherman. He arrested Correspondent Knox on charges of spying, did his irascible best to have him hanged. A court-martial saved Knox from the gallows, but he was banned from Sherman's command with a personal...