Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it came time for the King and Queen and Princesses to leave the wedding, they all retired from the presence of Queen Mary with impressive respect. The Princesses exhibited great deference to their grandmother, executing careful curtsies...
...Russia, which long ago branded equality as "egalitarian" heresy, took another step toward hierarchy. True to Philosopher Yudin's axiom that to preserve the Red Army means to preserve the state, Generalissimo Stalin issued a whip-cracking new set of army regulations. The statutes ordered Red warriors to "respect seniors in command . . . observe strictly military conduct and the salute...
...state designed (by optimistic Leninist-Marxist prophecy) to wither away, officers had been receiving only spotty respect and obedience. Now that the state was sprouting stronger & stronger, they were given new power & glory: "The senior in command is not to leave unpunished a single offense. . . . Officers . . . have the right ... to make declarations concerning misuse and shortcomings. . . . Courts of Honor have been created for the guarding of the dignity and honor of the officers' rank...
American secretary to the Rhodes trustees, took a look at the first 1,100 Yanks who went to Oxford that way (The American Rhodes Scholarships, Princeton University Press; $2). Had Rhodes scholarships produced a batch of Anglophiles? Aydelotte thinks not. Says he: "The American Rhodes scholar learns to respect his country as the jingo never does. He learns to be jealous of her action in those things that matter...
...feats in prose include one whole book without a line of comedy. This is it. Waugh finished writing it in 1935, some years after his conversion to Roman Catholicism, as a tribute to his faith and to the Jesuits. It is a biographical study, done skillfully and with full respect, of a fabulous Jesuit priest executed by order of Queen Elizabeth...