Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first post-election meeting with a top-ranking U.S. official, Mexico's President-elect Adolfo López Mateos invited a man he had never met. but had come to respect from a distance. Texas Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson, Senate majority leader. In a sun-drenched hotel cottage overlooking Acapulco Bay one morning this week, the Mexican and the Texan pulled up chairs to a breakfast of diced tropical fruit, eggs and coffee, and started talking...
...nearly three and a half billion dollars a year, and mortgage debts rose nearly eleven billion a year. Gross savings, at thirty seven billion in 1947, are predicted to jump to a hundred billion by 1970. The increase in debt incurred by the Harris plan would, in this respect, be relatively small...
...this respect, as in so many others, the sculptor Maillol is comparable to Renoir, whose portrait he modeled superbly. Both maximized, late in life, a union of sensuosity and innocence which characterizes their work. Both were passionately fond of the beautiful, even of the pretty, and achieved a voluptuousness and bursting fullness which epitomizes the joy a poet finds in all nature. Both were especially involved with the rhythm of the female form. Maillol wrote, "Girlhood with its fresh bloom, its flowerlike innocence, its confidence in life, is for me the world's greatest wonder...
Insiders predict that the elements will not respect today's impassioned bout between the traditional rivals. It is said that clouds will overshadow the playing fields and temperatures will settle in the chilly 40's. Light rain or snow may well disturb the stolid comfort of the cheering masses...
...Soviet and the Free World, Newbigin points out that there are no conditions in his country which are intrinsically antipathetic to Communism. "Not a prophet, but hopeful," he still states that existing remnants of the caste system will do as little to prevent the spread of Communism as respect for ancestry did in China. For the West, he feels, the best course would be to "have confidence in the Congress Party, but remember that Nehru must deliver the goods." One way to aid him would be a firm economic commitment to back the Indian Five Year Plans...