Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first comparatively unknown to undergraduates at large and, as he admits, by no means certain of his ability to cope with the busy job of "doaning", Dean Hanford has been able, from his position as middleman between students and Faculty, to strengthen "respect for scholarship" in the former and to increase the effective energy of the latter...
...people, was abated by the death of her husband, Rear Admiral Clarence Mason Richards, U.S.N. Mrs. Richards spoke of her husband as "the Skipper," but said that "most of his Navy friends called him 'Possum Belly.' " When the Skipper died in 1944, Mom decided that, out of respect for his memory, she should wear a war widow's pin. To her surprise, she found that there were no pins for war widows...
...People's Political Council, advisory body to Chiang Kai-shek's Government, impetuous, energetic Pan Chaoying, director of the influential Catholic Social Welfare newspaper chain in China, let out an anti-Russian blast. Thundered Pan: "According to the Sino-Soviet Treaty of 1945, China and Russia should respect each other's sovereignty and territory. But Russia hasn't kept her word...
...Hint from Medicine Men. Meanwhile, the chemical war against cancer took a strange turn. Scientists are now experimenting with an ancient remedy well known to patent-medicine makers: the mandrake, or Mayapple root. For centuries, men have regarded the mandrake with awe. Old Testament writers mentioned it with respect as a fertility symbol (Rachel purchased some from Leah at the price of Jacob's spending the night in Leah's tent). Medieval men, certain that there was something odd about mandrake, believed that it would shriek in Gothic agony when pulled out of the ground...
This is an up from serfdom story, relating the upward surge of beaten-down seamen to a position of self respect and the only dignity they have ever known. The Union, says Boyer, has gotten the men something they can put in their wallets, and in their stomachs. It has given them something to think about, a purpose. But more important, it has done something for the people as people, restoring to them a belief in themselves and in the possibilities of social action. There is a new kind of man in America, the union man. He is the forecast...