Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inquiry has been at all times guided by scores of experts who stand in back of it. ... By the . . . realistic standard of what has been achieved before in the study of sex, Professor Kinsey's work is clearly a tremendous advance, and warrants wide attention and respect...
...long-term policy should be to create a democratic federation of Europe, with a constitution based on the principles of common citizenship, political freedom, and representative government; including a charter of human rights. Such a federation should have defined powers with respect to such matters as external affairs, defense, currency, customs; and the planning of production, trade, power and transport. To achieve this objective, the governments of the states of Western Europe should take steps to convene, as soon as practicable, a constituent assembly composed of representatives chosen by the parliaments of the participating states, to frame a constitution...
...R.P.F. would probably come to power, after a series of parliamentary crises, the Communists might meanwhile start a violent insurrection. "What is necessary," said Pleven, "is to organize a painless transition. You should make some friendly gesture toward those leaders of the present regime for whom you have personal respect...
...totality of meaning which is his obvious design simply does not come off; but in the separate incidents employed there are still personality creations packing enough wallop within themselves to negate their failure in terms of the whole effort. During a nightmare of battle, for example, Peter gains enduring respect for the unique integrity of Gene Wenisloski--an emotional attachment extending beyond Wenisloski's death under fire. And Peter's brief stop in Chicago to look up Harry Myers, renegade Communist turned boy's settlement leader, burns with a quality which had it been transposed into a consistent thread...
...feels together with such men as James F. Byrnes and Walter Lippman, will provide the necessary bite. They will show both Russia and those European nations which may in the future fall into Russia's sphere that we "mean business." Russia is supposed to respond by displaying new respect for the potency of American policy; and nations such as France and Italy, theoretically, will be encouraged by this new and positive display of American interest to resist Communist domination, both from within and from without...