Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contrary to recurrent rumors, Miss 'Cliffe will not receive the Ibis. The sacred bird is now in the hands of people reported to have little respect for feminine pulchritude...
...whether her sophistication is educated naivete, or her childlike candor utter sophistication (one is never quite sure which), she is so fresh, pure and enchanting as to completely disarm Holden, Niven and her audience. Niven, the rake redeemed, tells her that every playboy has an innate respect for innocence. Miss McNamara is acutely conscious of the irony and humor of this transformation, and participates with gusto in the vindication of morality over vice...
Lynn, Sept. 26-One platoon football, which the experts say will cause more upsets than dishonest gamblers, failed completely in that respect in its local debut at the Manning Bowl here today...
...have, in our respect for priceless civil and human rights, used the federal authority, wherever it clearly extends, to erase the stain of racial discrimination and segregation...
...young (26) ex-marine with the biceps of a riveter and the combative instincts of a Brahma bull. As a prizefighter, he has won 36 out of 51 professional fights, and out of this indifferent record has won the title of New York State welterweight (147 Ibs.) champion. Boxers respect his clumsy punch, but Basilio cuts easily, and when he earned a shot at the world championship, the experts thought him easy meat for a slashing hitter like Cuba's Champion Kid Gavilan. Last week, fighting in his home town of Syracuse, Underdog Basilio was nobody's pigeon...