Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to express my gratitude and admiration for Mrs. Luce . . . We know of these frightful facts of juvenile delinquency in our country, but I seriously doubt the patriotism of men, who, in their hone of gaining a prize, would show a film exposing, even facts, which must lower the" respect and admiration for our country in foreign lands...
...President has had a mild coronary thrombosis." Those eight words spoken in Denver by a White House secretary thudded on the nation and the world. The first concern turned on the man, a figure of affection and respect in the hearts of more millions throughout the globe than any man of this decade. He is not idolized as some of the 20th century leaders have been. He is not hated and feared as some have been. He is liked. He is understood...
Sumner was snake-infested swamp until it was cleared for cotton in 1873. Like many another U.S. town, it was built around a courthouse, and its pioneers brought into the wilderness a respect for Anglo-American law. But they also brought the hatreds and half-digested lessons of Reconstruction years and a socio-economic system that would constantly conflict with the tradition of Anglo-American justice as those traditions lived and evolved among the vast majority of their countrymen...
...Colombia, President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla put on a big show of lifting the government's press censorship, but actually clamped down with a "code of ethics" that banned all stories that stir up politics, "imply lack of respect" for him or for friendly nations, hurt the economy or simply cause disorder...
Every college possessing any self-respect possesses a football team and the stars of each team are highly paid. The American universities profit through this practice alone fifty million dollars in one transitory season. These modern gladiators receive on the basis of their brutal loutish swindling, a scholarship plus a bonus which averages fifty dollars for each game. Indeed, on close examination, no other type of player may be seen on the thousands of professional teams participating in this wild, catch-as-catch-can style of game...