Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Enmity & Respect. McNamara's bold cancellations and cutbacks of major weapons-system programs, notably the air-to-ground Skybolt missile, the supersonic B70 bomber and nuclear-powered planes and aircraft carriers, have earned him the enmity but also the grudging respect of the military. His decision to close down 95 military bases last year (at an estimated savings to the taxpayer of $477 million a year) threatened local economies and brought cries of outrage from Governors and Congressmen-and Illinois Senator Paul Douglas' tribute: "You are the first man to have the courage...
...iron-grey horse-and the word for that, in dialect, is demirkirat. The demirkirat has become so popular that in one Black Sea village a Justice Party supporter last week knifed a Republican who, he felt, was singing a folk song about a grey horse without the proper respect...
...misery can stay away indefinitely, and last week Oldtimers Lauri and Mosconi chalked up again. It was a threeday, 1,000-point match, arranged to raise money for ailing Lauri's medical bills. A charitable New York poolroom lent a table, cut off the recorded music out of respect for the occasion, and crowded in 1,000 of the faithful. As Lauri, 69, made his runs, Mosconi wore a crushing expression of disdain. It upset Lauri's concentration so much that he committed an inexcusable scratch-missing the object ball entirely. "You play with this guy," groaned Lauri...
...served on the federal Farm Credit Board under Ike; his diffident, withdrawn wife Bonnie; their sturdy teen-age son Kenyon; their engaging teen-age daughter Nancy, the "town darling"-Capote makes clear why a neighbor exclaimed after the murder: "That family represented everything people hereabouts really value and respect, and that such a thing could happen to them-well, it's like being told there is no God. It makes life seem pointless...
...fact, the Beatles have no respect for anything, not for Beethoven or for James Bond. Roger the tiger responds favorably only to the chorale from Beethoven's Ninth, so when Ringo is trapped with Roger, Lennon yells, "Ringo, sing famous Beethoven's famous Ninth Symphony." Bond's deadly Aston-Martin becomes a Mr. Whippy truck that leaves a trail of thumbtacks, and Alligator's camouflaged House of Parliament--a parody of a parody--becomes the Kaili's sacrificial temple, brought from the Orient to Bermuda...