Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...date Republican tacticians have largely confined themselves to running against Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. This stemmed partly from long habit, partly from respect for new President Truman. But the bars are down now, and Harry Truman can expect the same unchecked criticism which the G.O.P. showered on the New Deal...
...Americans roughed it with the Chinese in the field. On training campaigns, they lived hard together, sweated out long marches, heat and sickness together, ate rice and slum together when U.S. rations ran short. Out of the prodding, teaching, learning and comradeship a new respect and understanding was fashioned between the Allied fighting men. And out of the traditionally primitive and inefficient material of the Chinese Army emerged a confident striking force...
...Albert Einstein had his say about the atomic bomb last week. He was heard with respect: his classic E=mc² formula, announced in 1905, was the foundation of atomic research; a letter from him to President Roosevelt in 1939 helped set the atomic thunders rolling. Last week, in an Atlantic Monthly article ghost-written by Raymond Swing, the sage of modern science spoke...
...Just as Russian foreign policy was judged largely by its effect on the U.S., so any statement of U.S. policy would be judged by its effect on Russia. The question was not whether the Russians would like Truman's policy, but whether they would understand and respect it. The deeply distrustful Russians, doubly distrustful of generalities, would try to apply Truman's words to specific problems and places...
...summer in the glossy pages of Harper's Bazaar, it caused a mild critical flurry. Now published in book form, Prater Violet is likely to draw as much critical attention as any other novel of the season. Even in a period of thriving fiction, Prater Violet would rate respect: with the Anglo-American novel at its lowest ebb in years, Prater Violet looks like a fresh, firm peach in a dish of waxed fruits...