Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think it could happen ... I don't believe it will happen again in the same way. It is no longer possible to escape the realization that the future of our public education is at stake, that the future of thousands upon thousands of wonderful young people depends on respect for the law. I hold a fundamental conviction that the South will intelligently and ably face, not to the illusory past, but to the high promise of our nation's future...
Most of those questioned agreed that "some, though certainly not all" students in their first year are not being sufficiently challenged by the formal curriculum, and it was added that the present freshman advising system is "no help" in this respect...
Strauss's "longstanding, warm and effective support of science," his "great respect for science and friendship for scientists." Physicist Detlev W. Bronk, president of the National Academy of Sciences, said that over the years he had found Strauss "completely cooperative" and "completely honest...
...have to roar out lessons above the din of a bunkhouse card game. One teacher told Principal Robinson last year: "Many times this summer I've hated your guts." But the school has few resignations. Most teachers, says Robinson, "stick to it no matter what. The result is respect...
...Grook," the keyword of the novel, always refers to something ominously exciting, not fully understood, worthy of a boy's wonder and solemn respect. Dr. Sax. the hawk-faced, silent, evil-battling spook whom Jack Duluoz invents (and then sees, fearfully, in every dark doorway), gets from place to place by grooking. Dr. Sax plays poker incessantly, has a high, fiendish laugh ("Mwee hee ha ha ha"). And when his stalking of the evil Great World Snake makes it necessary, he pulls a rubber boat out of his slouch hat, pumps it up and paddles across the Merrimack...