Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boring into its most difficult task: mass indictment of the entire German General Staff and High Command (some 114 top generals and admirals) for cooperating with the Nazis and plotting aggressive war beyond the normal duties of a patriotic officer. Said Assistant Prosecutor Colonel Telford Taylor, U.S.A.: "We respect the distinguished profession of arms. . . . We do not condemn a man for being a locksmith, but we do condemn him for taking advantage of his profession to break into his neighbor's house...
...Like a Housewife." Small, hard-eyed Allyne Velome Scheerer Carpenter Nugent, the boss, is a lithe and fiftyish fireball who has the respect, if not the love, of her staff. She inherited the Courier in 1925, five years later had worked herself into a breakdown. She went to Paris to get over it, met and married a young English-Canadian named John Lithgow Nugent-Fyfe. In Lincoln her new husband dropped the Lithgow and Fyfe, suspecting that midwesterners would not cotton to hyphenations. He ran the business...
...from an air hose. Finally, half the rats could no longer stand the strain: they broke down and trembled, twitched their tails, clawed the air, lay on their sides and kicked, ran in circles. But except for these nervous tantrums, the unstable rats seemed to differ in only one respect from the imperturbable rats: they had an abnormally high sugar and protein content in their blood...
...Rights for the vanquished: "One who seeks reparations should base his claim on moral principles, respect for those inviolable natural rights which remain valid even for those who have surrendered unconditionally...
Another trapped rat was a female and a veteran of the species. Because it was her tenth arrest for pilfering church funds, she faced a sentence of life imprisonment. "Mon Dieu!" she remonstrated. "You police have no respect any more for religion...