Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From that moment on, the treaty was ready for signature. Its main provisions: ¶ Restore Austrian independence by promising to withdraw the 60,000 occupation troops "within ninety days"; ¶ Establish Austria's boundaries as they were on Jan. 1, 1938. and forbid another Anschluss with Germany; ¶ Respect Austria's territorial integrity. Additionally, the Big Four are expected to promise to "recognize and observe" Austria's neutrality...
...Americans don't like the way the Peking regime was established," he thundered. "How about the way America was established? It's necessary for us to tell our U.S. friends to grow up ... They must listen to us with more respect . . . We have acquired more wisdom than [America]. If this is the path she intends to tread, we don't intend to tread it with...
...such he is in danger of being labeled and passed off as just another member of a group in whose work readers of poetry have come to expect generally good craftsmanship, an unusual precision of language, and disappointingly little in the way of content. In the most important respect, however, Honig breaks this pattern; his poems are indeed characterized by the precision of the scholar, but they try to be serious comments on matters of unusually basic importance. The title of his recently published volume, The Moral Circus, is indicative of this intention...
...piano player; in a land where sex has become so naughty-fied that its outflow has been redirected to the channel of physical violence; where nice girls are taught early that it is legal to tease but evil to please . . . it might be more discreet to observe a mum respect for the pragmatic, clearheaded and honest Swedes. It might also be revealing to compare their and our records in the above-mentioned areas of crime. For when you come right down to it, we've made a dreadful botch of sex right here at home...
...Legion of Merit, degree of Chief Commander (for sending a regimental combat team from the Royal Thai Army to assist in the Korean fighting). When the Premier bowed low and placed the tops of his fingers together before his chest, the traditional Asian "joining of palms" to express respect and appreciation, John Foster Dulles whispered to the President: "They don't shake hands in Thailand." Said Ike: "I know, I know. But we do." He gave Phibun a hearty handshake, then took him out to Burning Tree and beat him in a game of golf...