Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walzer recalled Mrs. Butterfield's apparently limitless energy with great respect. "She did the secretarial work in our office with great ease, and had time left over for her many other activities," he said...
...possible that he will never forgive either the enemies who brought him low, or himself (those given to psychohistory would argue that they amount to the same thing). Perhaps Nixon will grow old in America as a kind of strange, unregenerate presence viewed with indifference, curiosity or eventually the respect that is accorded, with a short laugh and an incredulous shake of the head, to the unrepentant survivor...
...Nixon was meant to be bloodless, to be cold, to inspire no feelings except gnawing anxiety and perhaps grudging respect at his sheer resiliency. As soon as the crowds forget who he was and what he did--as soon as they forget the dike bombing and the "secret war" and the wiretappings and the dirty tricks--as soon as they remember only the "New Nixon," humble and repentent, brushing back the bitter tears to offer his countrymen some sage advice--then the man will have won his biggest prize...
...with security arrangements for Israel. Jerusalem has its reasons to be wary of such a scheme: it would require Israel to give up the occupied lands, its major bargaining chip in negotiations, even before talks turn to the crucial issue of the future status of the territory concerned. But respect for diplomatic niceties should have persuaded the Israelis to delay their dismissal of the plan until it had officially been announced...
Like many fashionable Italians, Alessandro De Tomaso, owner of the Maserati car company, carries an elegant man's handbag dangling from a shoulder strap. But his bag is unusual in one respect. By slipping his hand through an open flap on the side, De Tomaso can quickly grab a .38 revolver that he keeps cradled inside. Says he: "It is just a normal hazard of business life in Italy today...