Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...respect for the Crimson grows with each issue. I think it was particularly astute of you to point out that among all the attacks by the let's-get-Wallace crowd, the one thing they are not attacking is Mr. Wallace's central thesis...
There are two familiar patterns which the touted new National Students Organization hopes distinctly not to resemble: the shrieking "save the world" crusader with rag-paper pamphlets and the cautiously respectable student council federation with annual parliamentary junkets. Regional delegates, meeting here over the weekend in a warmup before this September's week-long Constitutional Convention at the University of Wisconsin, displayed unanimous determination to steer clear of both political axe-grinding and do-nothing organization for its own sake. What they are out to build is an utterly representative national body in which every American student will feel himself...
...only through acquiescence to untold humiliation and indignities, weak surrender of self-respect, and conventional fear of the old bugaboo, public opinion, that thousands upon thousands of servicemen received "honorable" discharges. In the face of hypocritical military caste, pseudo-respect demanded by threat of court-martial, and obedience to hopelessly incompetent commissioned officers, it is small wonder that men of sterling virtue and wonderful character received "bad conduct" discharges
...Communist Party, there is no question of world revolution, but of feeding and democratizing the people. We plan no Soviet here. We want the big feudal land holdings redistributed, but we respect all properties below 100 hectares [247 acres]. And that is a good-sized piece of property. We want industry. . . . We want to put the idle to work. Capital will find all the guarantee it needs...
There is a young artist called Whistler, Who in every respect is a bristler: A tube of white lead Or a punch on the head Come equally handy to Whistler...