Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sailors bowed their heads. One of the florid old men in the corner turned redder than ever and shuffled his dominoes. "Can't you show no respect?" hissed the fat char. "Garn!" grunted the old man. "First women-then this...
...mothers had thrown eggs and tomatoes at him, Lord Halifax had replied: "Let them have a good time for their money." The Nazis had killed one of his three sons in Egypt; another had lost both legs in the battle of Alamein. The U.S. gradually came to respect, and almost to like, his stiff upper...
...crack football team which made the Rose Bowl nine times, a campus which expanded from five acres to 50, and a plant which grew from three to 22 buildings, costing $16 million. Said the committee tartly: "The university's future ... is more dependent upon the dignity, respect and morale of its faculty than it is upon buildings. . . ." The U.S.C. trustees would see what could be done...
...brilliant prose-they were fascinating and had a kind of queer vitality, but were not much like anything on earth. Delta Wedding, which is Author Welty's first novel, is likely to provoke in readers the same old mixture of puzzlement over the odd people in it and respect for the sensitive, nimble hand that pulls the strings. Every page is filled with a sensitivity and workmanship that raise it far above the level of most novels; but also into an atmosphere that most readers may find too rare to breathe...
...began a fabulous, up-&-down career at 18 by selling diving suits to Venezuela pearl divers, more recently helped organize the famous Flying Tigers. He once modestly remarked: "Unquestionably I have been one of the prime contributors to China's defense." As Ambassador to Peru he earned the respect and awe of the Bustamante Government. He, too, was the personal choice of Spruille Braden...