Word: respectibility
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rocket-belching LSMR, improvised in the middle of World War II, was an efficient, lethal little vessel. As a curtain raiser to amphibious landings, it could briefly match the firepower of a modern cruiser with its close-in salvos of rockets. The enemy on the beach quickly came to respect its sting, but the unhappy crewmen aboard just as quickly discovered that the LSMR was not designed as a pleasure craft. In the calmest seas, it shook like a dog emerging from a bath; in hurricane weather, it performed better, sloughing wildly over the long sea swells...
Adenauer's firm refusal to consider a "neutralized Germany" pinpointed the basic weakness of the Molotov play: it flies in the face of national self-respect. No proud nation, least of all 70 million Germans, is likely to take kindly to the Russians' suggestion that it join a buffer belt of international eunuchs and meekly stand aside from conflicts which might decide its fate. Along these lines, the reaction of Tito's Yugoslavia was symptomatic and instructive. "One of the basic characteristics of a buffer state is the absence of independence," said one paper. Added another...
Through the winter, young Bertrand Peyrelongue gazed at the vineyards surrounding his ancient château on the Gironde and mourned the lost days when fine wines were treated with the respect they deserved. Those were the days when the vineyard patrons of the sun-kissed Médoc district personally carried their finest Bordeaux vintages across the Channel and sold them at a Thames quayside to discriminating London vintners. "A good wine," sad Bertrand, "should have personal attention. It is a patron's duty." As spring's tender new shoots peeped from the wintry canes...
Premier Willem Drees, a walrus-mustachioed Laborite whom Dutchmen respect for his honest stolidity, was suddenly out of a job. He had made the mistake of proposing a rent-increase bill that satisfied no one. Everybody agreed that something had to be done about housing (one family in six still has to share with another), but Dutch housing is bedeviled by a shortage of building workers, by wage controls that destroy incentive, by cartels that keep material costs high, and by inequitable rent controls (rents have been allowed to go up 40% on prewar houses, while the cost of living...
...lanky build, the same courtly manners and, at close range, the same considerable charm. Like Avery, he is a lawyer (Indiana '30) and a "clean-desk man." He started in Ward's legal department in 1933, quickly rose to be director of labor relations. Avery's respect for Barr rose at the way he masterminded Ward's fight against the War Labor Board, which included the famed carrying-out of Avery by the Army. Under Barr, the union was kept out of Ward. Recently, when Avery needed the A.F.L. Teamsters' support against Wolfson, Barr...