Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Williams' analysis applies quite neat-nations. In respect to Russian-American affairs, however, his thesis seems to break down. He attributes the responsibility for the deterioration of East-West relations more to the American Open Door policy than to Soviet machinations and seriously underestimates Russian expansive tendencies. It is at best only half-true to accuse American leaders of attempting to "force the Soviet Union to accept America's traditional conception of itself and the world. And to say that "in every case but one, Russia retreated from these efforts [at territorial aggrandizement] in the face of America's vigorous...
...reporter questioned this sudden concern for propriety. "We respect public opinion," answered Liz, "but you can't live by it. If we lived by it, Eddie and I would have been terribly unhappy through all this turmoil. But I can shamelessly say that we have been terribly happy. I am literally rising above it." Her words rang all the way to Manhattan, where Pundit Max Lerner wrote in the New York Post: "Where so many people have become desensitized in our world, I welcome this forthright celebration of the life of the senses...
...Harvard student is superior to the continental European student in respect to the wideness of his interests, but the two are about comparable in capabilities," Willy Hartner, Director at the Institute on the History of Science at the University of Frankfurt, observed in a recent interview...
Clutton-Brock earned the Negroes' respect and friendship when in 1957 he helped organize the Southern Rhodesia branch of the African National Congress. When congress organizers were branded "agitators," he said: "It is the duty of every citizen and Christian to be an agitator for justice, righteousness and truth...
...Masterson, he resembled the television character in only one respect: he used to bat disorderly types over the head with a heavy cane he sometimes carried. Otherwise, he was a cautious fellow who hid behind a piano in a bawdy-house when a gunman was on the prowl, later bought a gun in a New York pawnshop, filed 22 notches in the handle and, as a reporter for the New York Telegraph, set about making his own myth...