Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This tale of delay is not uncommon in the Soviet Union, which long regarded service jobs as demeaning and accorded them low status and pay. In a classless society, a plumber, a waiter or a barber was thought to lack self-respect because he had to cater to others. The result, not surprisingly, has been a severe shortage of trained people in the whole range of service occupations...
...Viet Nam. It is hard to hate people who are so fed up with fascist governments and foreign intervention that they are able to carry on with stolen and imported weapons and men against the most sophisticated weaponry that U.S. money can buy. "Hatred" doesn't fit; "respect" might be closer to the mark. It might be easier to work up some fear of Ho Chi Minh if he were leading a platoon of Viet Cong down the main street of Honolulu...
...eight miles from the finish. The driver: TV Comic Johnny Carson, 41, whose racing experience has consisted mostly of running after taxicabs in the rain. Carson came away from the stunt with (in descending order of surprise) his life, six usable minutes of film for his show, and increased respect for big-car racing. "Boy, you put your life in your hands every time you go out there," he said. "It's kind of like television...
There will be no respect for the law until there is a respect for the rights of others. In the meantime, the police will be at the eye of the storm: a subject of intense controversy, not because they are responsible for the conditions with which they deal but because, like the mountain, they are there...
...should not be thought that the limerick is lowbrow poetry muttered by beery men glad to get away from their wives and into the saloon. A strict art form, the limerick is the special province of the literate, oldfashioned, word-oriented man. Only those who respect and understand the magic of words can enjoy the holiday from sense in the limerick, where the rhyme as often as not dictates the sense...