Word: respecting
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...wonder, can a people be taught to respect law when their teachers continue to use law cynically, prosecuting not when the weight of evidence demands prosecution, but only when the whims and passions of local citizens seem to make conviction probable? The Federal government should start teaching by example, should start standing up to prejudice in the courts and stop fencing with prejudice in the city halls and back rooms...
Though they may respect his abilities, State Department officials find un settling the idea of talkative Hubert becoming a foreign policy force. In deed, the story making the rounds of the department is that Secretary Dean Rusk wrote a letter congratulating Humphrey on his election, but suggesting that he limit his foreign policy activities to ribbon-snipping ceremonies and the like; an aide persuaded Rusk to delete the suggestion from the letter and send a more tactful oral message...
...Stanleyville, just before the rebels took it, he told a crowd: "You tell me you don't have enough to eat. But I see you drinking beer at 9 o'clock in the morning. First work, then drink your beer." Africans respect a winner, and so Tshombe banked on his firm stand against the rebels in Stanleyville. If he succeeds, the Congo could become a watershed in the history of emerging Africa. For five years, African politicians have indiscriminately whiplashed the Western world while glorifying themselves with such airy phrases as "African personality" and "African socialism." Tshombe-that...
...first, fearsome winter of World War I. Ninety years ago this week was born the only man who, in his own words, "passed through both the two supreme cataclysms of recorded history in high Cabinet office." It is a mark of the world's affection and deep respect for Sir Winston Churchill that his birthday is celebrated almost as a national anniversary throughout ' the free world...
...grey, 17th century walls, takes religion seriously, and demands reparation for sins against divine law. Without a doubt, Pastor Van der Wiel, 54, had offended Elburg's sense of the proprieties. As pastor of the Reformed Church for ten years, he had earned the clannish townsfolk's respect for his learned sermons, theological orthodoxy and stern denunciations of engaged couples who did not wait until their wedding night. The town was horrified seven weeks ago when four local youths reported that they had seen pretty, blonde Matje Leusink, 26, kissing the pastor...