Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intended to protect. Nevertheless, it is an open and candid assumption of individual moral responsibility of a sort that is expected of men and women in a society where the individual conscience is recognized as the supreme authority. It is a course more likely to produce public respect and self-respect than any pleading of a constitutional immunity. And if it does not save the pleader from prison, it will save him at least from an enduring sense of shame...
...most significant issue for the School Board's action was the of her fitness to teach. "We believe that it is important for children, even in the lower grades, to be taught by teachers imbued with our American ideals of democracy, loyalty, love of country, and respect for our tradition of freedom," the majority wrote, "and we do not believe that love for these ideals can be properly transmitted by a person whose personal contact shows an utter lack of understanding of them...
...award concluded by stating that Seavey had the respect and affection of his colleagues while maintaining a vigorously analytical and often critical view of legal opinions...
...sickly ever since he was stricken with tuberculosis in his teens, was nearing exhaustion. In the Place of the Sheep, a crowd of 50,000 cheered him for ten minutes, then listened as he warned: "We must know how to use this sovereignty in a dignified manner. We must respect everyone who lives on this earth, be he French or foreigner. We must treat him as a brother as long as he respects our freedom, our personality, and our dignity." With a final tired smile for the crowd, Bourguiba drove off to a friend's house to rest...
...this seemed to be a promise that all was forgiven, come home at once. If Tito was the devoted Communist he professed to be, what more could he ask? Khrushchev gilded his poisoned apple. The Soviet bases its relations, he went on reading, on "principles of equality, nonintervention and respect for sovereignty. The desire of Yugoslavia to maintain relations with all states both of the West and in the East has met with complete understanding on our part." Then Khrushchev returned to the theme his "Comrade", opening had set. "We consider it desirable to have mutual confidence established between...