Word: respectfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago I waded through the story of his life . . . but the adulation got a bit thick . . . Congratulations to TIME, which has the proper amount of respect for a really great man but also the restraint to keep "hero worship" out of the article...
...came to power in a bloodless military coup (TIME, April 11), Husni Zaim, an ex-Turkish army officer, has exhibited many of the trappings of a dyed-in-the-wool dictator-personal bodyguards, an extensive repertory of uniforms and a smoothly clicking propaganda machine. But in at least one respect, he was different: his soft heart treated bitter political enemies with relative leniency. Last week, even fumbling old Shukri el-Kuwatly, whom Zaim had deposed as President, had been permitted to leave his guarded hospital cot for a "complete rest" in Switzerland...
...Munich denazification court, Photographer Heinrich Hoffman, who brought Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun together, testified that the Fiihrer's relations with Eva were platonic to the end. Said Hoffman: "Eva never was alone when she met Herr Hitler in the evening. In this respect, Herr Hitler was very infantile...
...instinctive respect for all living creatures seemed strange to his schoolmates, and often it made him sad. ("Youth's unqualified joie de vivre" he once wrote, "I never really knew.") Twice Albert went fishing, but "the treatment of the worms . . . and the wrenching of the mouths of the fishes" were too much for him. Each night, after his prayers with his mother, he added a secret one of his own: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath, guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace...
...catch King Devil, he was ashamed to face his family and his neighbors. To his astonishment they were overwhelmed with pride and admiration-"the onliest real fine things we've ever had"-and the dogs brought him a kind of backwoods fame and prosperity. Bootleggers treated him with respect, the AAA lent him fertilizer for his fields, a dog-loving storekeeper advanced him credit, and the whole countryside conspired to keep his secret when he did a little moonshining to get the family through the winter...