Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...product of a different day, finds less to respect in some of Sam's methods, because "He didn't think much about the people coming along after him." Old Sam cut down most of the virgin timber on his farm, snaked it out by mules to his own sawmills, then ripped into the job of converting the land into dollars, fast and plentiful. He brought in eight tenant farmers-Joe does nicely with three farm hands-and urged them to plow the steep hillsides year after year, planting corn in any and all directions without regard for erosion...
...long ago (1947) the world's top amateur himself, Kramer can talk convincingly to younger players about the advantages of turning pro. Kramer knows that amateur tennis is not always pure, that players get paid on the side and serve as social pets for rich backers. "People respect you more when you make your own way," Kramer tells the youngsters. "More important, you respect yourself more." Jack demolishes the argument that there is something nobler or more socially acceptable about being an amateur. "That's a lot of bunk." He tells tennis amateurs bluntly: "When...
Athletes have come and gone from Soldiers Field, but perhaps none has spent so short a time, left so abruptly, and then earned such lasting respect as James B. Connolly '99, the first champion of the modern Olympics Games nearly 60 years ago, and today revered as the aging dean of America writers of sea stories...
...Some other nations would, at times, prefer it if the United States would deviate from basic principles to help them meet their immediate problems. If we do not do so, they may temporarily turn away. But underneath such surface dissatisfactions lies, I feel, a sense of respect for the United States because we at least try to live by principle. Certainly that is essential to our own sense of self-respect...
...British courts, lawsuits, civil and criminal, come to trial within six months. In the U.S., which professes as much respect as Britain for the principle that "justice delayed is justice denied," it takes more than four years, in some Federal District Courts, to get a case to trial. Last week Deputy Attorney General William P. Rogers warned that, if the backlog of cases is not drastically reduced, the Department of Justice "will be prepared to try cases throughout the summer months to take care of what we believe is an emergency situation in our courts...