Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal love for what is so badly described as 'the people,' "-he says, "but in the war I was completely disenchanted with the people in the mass, and by the same token developed a great respect for the individual. And I think I learned also the practical aspect of standing in line for something." Springfield (Mass.) Architect Francis Liberatori, 39, paratrooper (loist Airborne) who lost the use of both legs in Normandy, reflects something about a new quiet kind of patriotism: "I learned some useful things about men and about my country in the war. And those things...
...enlist French soldiers into British units to "fight a war no longer their own"; he "encased myself in ice" against those who opposed him. "I am too poor to be able to bow," he once told Churchill. At first considered an absurd figure, in the end he won grudging respect ?and, more important, won his point...
With just the right touch of respect for his elders, Comrade Nikita Khrushchev, 64, wafted eastward a friendly birthday message for Comrade Mao Tse-tung, 65, hailed his "untiring and many-sided activities in leading the heroic struggle of the Chinese people and the Chinese Communist Party...
During 27 years of association, the Herald Tribune has treated Columnist Lippmann with awe-struck respect, even going so far as to pass a typist's error in punctuation. The column, originally syndicated to twelve papers, has consistently picked up new subscribers. Today Lippmann is the most widely quoted and acclaimed pundit in the world; Pravda has reprinted at least one of his pieces verbatim; Historian James Truslow Adams solemnly declared after Lippmann joined the Trib that "what happens to Lippmann in the next decade may be of greater interest than what happens to any other single figure...
...Teruo Yamaguchi to his father: "As death approaches, my only regret is that I have never been able to do anything good for you in my life . . . My greatest regret is [my] failure to call you chichiue [revered father]. I regret not having given any demonstration of the true respect which I have always had for you. During my final plunge, though you will not hear it, you may be sure that I will be saying chichiue to you and thinking of all you have done...