Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among many Germans, the respect which the U.S. won by its armed might is already outweighed by the occupiers' later behavior. Said a German editor: "It is a pity you should lose so quickly what took so long to gain. But as long as your officers set such examples, you could not really expect your soldiers to behave differently...
...Carters' friends know them as people who stick up for their ideals, but with no note of dreary, earnest dedication about them. The townspeople respect Carter's editorial policy, even if they don't always share it. The Carters and their three sons spend summers in Rockport, Me. (Carter's idea of fun would be "to run a Republican paper in Mississippi, a Democratic paper in Maine...
...Explained Levine: "Some officers lived in a world of their own creation. This general has come home and he's still in that sort of a world. I'm not talking about men like Bradley and Eisenhower. I've never seen them but I have great respect .for them. It's just the big slob who is vice president of the Second National Bank and president of the Chamber of Commerce, only now he's been in the Army. . . . I couldn't say that sort of thing while I was in the service...
...Arabs face the hour of reckoning. Zionists who have been living with an ideal will have to demonstrate the sincerity of their humanitarian appeals by compromising that ideal for the present, and fighting for implementation of the report. If the Arabs are to hold even a whit of respect in the eyes of the world, they will have to heed the warning of the Committee: "We hope that . . . those who have opposed the admission of these unfortunate people into Palestine . . . will look upon the situation again, . . . at least that they will not make the position of these sufferers more difficult...
When Buffalo-born Norm Anthony went to New York as a free-lance cartoonist at 21, he loved the place "at first sight; I've been faithful to it ever since." He was somewhat less faithful in other respects ("I'm the poor man's Tommy Manville") but even now he salvages some self-respect from the fact that he loved only one woman at a time. For his speakeasy pals he maintains a sturdy, juvenile affection. They were uniformly great tosspots and great guys. How to Grow Old Disgracefully is full of their gags and practical...