Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother of four children, three teenagers, and all through their growing up I have rebelled at the pressure our children today are exposed to. We have too little respect for each child as an individual. Instead of watching a quiet child who wants, or even needs, to be alone, there is pressure on the child to participate. We criticize an introvert child for not being outgoing enough ... Of course, to an extent there must be a limit to dreaming, but would anyone pull out a flower to see if it grows right...
...world by American private enterprise and the American Government working together with friendly national governments." Hopkins, whose firm built the atomic submarine Nautilus and is now working on a second, the Sea Wolf, warned that industrialists have played too small a part in atomic programs. Said he: "In respect to the worldwide industrial atom, the voice of American industry has been silenced...
...Kelly, who has achieved some fame as a ladylike beauty, also, gets her pretty teeth into a meaty acting part. She is a fine Georgie as she pads about her fourth-floor walkup, thin-lipped and pale, trying grimly to needle a weak-willed husband back to his self-respect. As the relentless, bullying director, Oscar-winning Actor Holden is as sharp as ever: a first-rate professional...
...spectacular advance of the American Economy from 1949 to 1953 has created a swell of optimism with respect to the possibilities of future growth and expansion. A Gross National Product of $500 billion, six to eight years hence, has frequently been suggested. Recently President Eisenhower himself referred to some such target...
...Respect for Dawson's skill has now gone up, and his moral repute has taken a tumble. Curator John Manwaring Baines of Hastings Museum found that five more antiquities that had been lent to the museum by Dawson and later bought from his widow, who sold them in good faith, were no more genuine than Piltdown man. Flint instruments proved to be of modern manufacture, and a "Roman" cast-iron statuette turned out to be a small, recent copy of a full-size statue in Rome. When not busy with antiquities, the industrious Dawson "wrote" a two-volume history...