Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important respect, the NATO members showed that the spirit of NATO is not to be judged simply by declining arms budgets. In recent weeks Soviet Russia has threatened Turkey, Norway, The Netherlands, Denmark, Britain. Greece, Spain, Iceland and most recently West Germany with atomic retaliation if they allow NATO to base atomic weapons on their territories. One by one, the ministers of the threatened countries scornfully declared their rejection of the Soviet threats. Said Norway's Foreign Minister Halvard Lange proudly: "If the Russian intent was to weaken the faith of the Norwegian public in NATO, the effect...
...peace of their souls, then went on up the "stair of the martyrs" and entered the Salle des Actes, smiling and gesturing with slender hands. Before him, four cardinals, 20 archbishops, 90 bishops-most of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in France-rose in silent respect to Achille Cardinal Liénart, Bishop of Lille and, at 73, their ranking prelate...
...Homage to Catalonia Orwell wrote, "I have recorded some of the outward events, but I cannot record the feelings they have left me with. It is all mixed up with sights, smells and sounds that cannot be conveyed in writing." It was a part of his respect for privacy--his own and others'--that Orwell made no claim to go farther
...negotiation, the Suez Canal was open for business again. True enough, it was open on Nasser's terms, as he made clear in a unilateral declaration deposited with the United Nations Security Council. But in laying out the terms, Nasser made important concessions by pledging himself to: ¶ "Respect the terms and spirit" of the 1888 Constantinople Convention, which provided that the canal "shall always be free and open ... to every vessel of commerce or of war, 'without distinction of flag" (although-as the convention specified ambiguously-Egypt can take any measures necessary for her own defense...
...Respecting the Spirit. From the preamble to the end of the short (1,000 words) document, it was evident that Nasser was anxious to get business, to show himself conciliatory, and to proclaim Egypt's respect for law. The document declared Egypt's "unaltered policy and firm purpose to respect the terms and the spirit of the Constantinople Convention...