Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preaching & Parties. The man who evokes this sentimental, semantic medley of adoration and respect is a little (5 ft.) youngish (40) bespectacled, homely, eloquent son of a French naval officer. Before the war Sartre was a relatively unknown professor of philosophy (1930-43). During the war he spent nine months in a German war prison, then emerged to play an active role in the Resistance (he served with the Communist-dominated Front National). Now he is France's most discussed writer: his temple, the respectably bohemian Cafe de Flore on the Left Bank. There he spends most...
Said Stars and Stripes: "The aristocracy-peasantry relationship characteristic of our armed forces has a counterpart nowhere else in American life." To the argument that the system is needed for battlefield discipline, Stars and Stripes retorted: "Such privileges and preferences actually destroy respect for rank, undermine morale and efficiency...
Convinced of his skill, grateful whites have been calling on him ever since with all sorts of ailments. The relationship between a Negro doctor and white Georgians was awkward at first, but Dr. Funderburg's competence has won him respect. Now 57, he shuttles busily between modest frame offices in both counties, where whites wait their turn along with Negroes. Among white people who visit him regularly are a bank official, a school teacher, several members of prominent Georgia families...
...dispatching to Rio a longtime Bolshevist of Surits' standing, the Soviets had paid the respect due to big, rich Brazil's growing eminence in world affairs. Surits would probably keep a weather eye on the seven other Russian diplomatic missions in Latin America-much as late Soviet Ambassador Constantine Oumansky supposedly did in Mexico City...
Several uneasy pharmaceutical groups are working energetically on: a complete shake-up of pharmacy colleges; a revised, realistic curriculum and fresh faculty blood; a publicity program to boost respect for pharmacy and attract young druggists...