Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George Washington's Continental Army. George Michael, the third of seven children, was born on the nourishing farm of his father, Guy Leader, three miles south of York. As with most Pennsylvania Dutch families, Patriarch Guy dominated the family circle, and George still has a deep admiration and respect for his father...
...another respect, Brown already parallels Cambridge. For the simple pleasures of feminine companionship, the Brownie need shuffle only three blocks through the leaves to arrive at the small campus of his sister college--Pembroke. Here, some 800 women enjoy a position similar in all but administrative setup to that of the Radcliffe student in Cambridge. They attend classes with Brown students on the Brown campus and have the same faculty. Their exact relationship to the College is difficult to describe; like so many other things at Brown, it is without pattern or precedent. It just grew...
...Pakistan was carved into two slices from British India's flanks. It has since won the respect of the world for its guts, its breezy good will and its single-minded resistance to Communism. But Pakistan, seven years old, has yet to convene a nationwide general election or to enact a constitution. It has yet to determine the place of religion in the state, though the Moslem faith is really all that binds together the two halves, which are separated by 1,000 miles of hostile India. West Pakistan is arid and Middle Eastern: its people eat wheat, speak...
...adhered to standard, clubmanlike behavior and not threatened to bring the Chamber to chaos. The successful censure motions and expulsions of this century have all gained steam from the fact that the guilty Senators disrupted the upper Chamber by waging scandalous elections or by failing to respect the established rules of the venerable legislative body...
...past few years the Senate's reverence for outmoded customs has worked in Senator McCarthy's favor. While his behavior has scandalized much of the intelligent public, McCarthy has generally managed to respect Senatorial traditions. His careful adherence to a committee chairman's prerogatives and a solid party-line voting record--almost as much as McCarthy's political potency--made Senators reject overwhelmingly the Benton censure resolution...