Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most tariff boosters, said Percy, is that they are apt to let their fears obscure their vision, forgetting that world trade "can mean business gained rather than business lost ... As foreign nations increase their business in this country they increase their ability to buy in this country ... In this respect the American eagle on the dollar ultimately becomes a homing pigeon...
Toward the end of his report, President Pusey reflected on Harvard's status in the eyes of the nation and observed that "Harvard did not suffer, but grew in popular respect because of her refusal to make concessions in order to placate an irascible, if limited, public opinion...
...This meretricious use of sounds and syllables to titillate a jaded public has no limit. The result is a slow corruption of language. Words are meant to have meaning. They are conventional symbols for the spiritual realities we call ideas. Until the recent past, a kind of abiding respect for language kept us from permitting its disintegration through arbitrary combination of its mangled elements. When new words came to life, their birth was superintended by jealous academies of lexicographical midwives . . . Now anything goes...
...members of the Physics Department have confidence in Furry's loyalty to the United States and his personal integrity. "They respect his scruples against naming persons who were former Communists and whom he believes innocent of wrongdoing...
...talent. If her trappings and her manner seem theatrical and deliberate, they also have the genuineness that only a true eccentric can give them. And if her readings, electrifying as they are, often seem stagy, a look at the printed poems will restore the balance in favor of respect for the lady who can write...