Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dealing with religion, which is practically a dirty word in squeamish Hollywood. Too often protectors of American faith are protrayed as grinning flaxen-haired Catholic priests, who just love baseball, or late, great, Senate chaplains, who equally love their Georgia peaches. Evidently, director Charles Frend has a healthy respect for accuracy when he gives us the inside line on the Church of England...
...trust you will not permit any decisions to be taken which might jeopardize the legitimate rights of Poland, or her independence, and that you will not recognize any faits accomplis with regard to Poland. If peace is to be durable, it must be based on principles of justice, on respect of law, on good neighborly relations as well as honesty in international life...
Gangsters' Colony. After a few more digs at the British colonizers ("gangsters in the full sense of the word"), Khrushchev protested that of course Communists respect "the talented and industrious British people and want to be friends with them" (prolonged applause). Then he turned...
...grounds to carnival operators who staged strip shows. Said one embittered priest in Nagoya of postwar Shintoists: "After a ceremony, they say, 'Hey priest, how much do I owe you?' In the old days the money would have been carefully wrapped in paper as a token of respect...
...family that had served in India since 1805, he was as excited about India as though he had gone there from a Midwestern farm. He was afire with the need to make good with his Gurkha troops, tribesmen from Nepal whose qualities as men and soldiers still excite his respect and imagination: "There were no excuses, no grumbling, no shirking, no lying. There was no intrigue, no apple-polishing, and no servility." Not until two years had passed did they put the seal of approval on the young subaltern. It was a loyalty worth having in the frontier wars...