Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mind an article I had read on the attitudes of Arab men toward Western women. The writer claimed that Arab men generally see them as, in a word, tramps; maybe candidates for seduction but never marriage. The men regarded only their own women as feminine and worthy of respect and matrimony. But seeing these women at the airport I could not help but wonder if this praise was earned by any virtue beyond complete docility...
...promise them. A conversation that starts in a friendly tone frequently ends with the woman abruptly walking away, or even shouting to be left alone. Tunisian men often cannot cope with women not submitting to their will, and a polite "no" from a Western woman is akin in this respect to the rebellion of an adulterous wife...
...Moline, Ill., the other night, a lady asked whether Carter's manner was more a return to simplicity or mediocrity. It is a delicate distinction. The wearing of neckties on certain occasions evolved out of respect for others. Trumpets were used for centuries in tribute to people and deeds. True, all those renditions of Hail to the Chief never made Richard Nixon a good or great man. But, damn it, whispers a military historian, Hail to the Chiefis an old rouser going back to the 19th century, which is used to lift spirits and tell people the President...
Kuchment said the Soviet Union granted him permission to emigrate in 1974 after the Senate passed the Jackson Amendment to the 1974 U.S. Trade Bill. Under the amendment, the granting of "most favored nation" trade status depends upon a country's respect for human rights...
...having weathered the considerable efforts to kill his nomination, Warnke and Carter will face new obstacles. Despite a personal plea from Carter linking the success of the Warnke nomination to respect for his ability as chief negotiator, the margin of confirmation in the Senate fell short of the two-thirds majority that administration officials desired both as a symbolic expression of support and as an indication that a possible arms control treaty with the Soviets would not be doomed from the start. Opposition to Warnke's nomination seemed to be based not on Warnke's lack of qualifications, but because...