Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trigger-happy" President, it is high time that people start asking themselves whether they want a "wheeler-dealer" President, who wants to get his way by any nefarious or unscrupulous means and build up his personal fortune into the bargain. Other countries of the world would have far more respect for a President of high moral principles, firmness and unquestionable character...
Quiet Wishes. No one expects violent explosions in Jamaica in the near future. Jamaicans are a smiling, gentle people with an abiding respect for British-style law and order. Yet Bustamante's cousin and arch political rival, Norman Washington Manley, 71, has a point when he charges that the government has failed to get the country moving as fast as it should. In private, some of Bustamante's own ministers tend to agree...
Volpe's liberalism is strictly Republican and in some ways regrettably limited. For example, his fetishistic respect for home rule makes him oppose a state-wide minimum wage for teachers. However, when welfare measures do not conflict with home rule, he supports them with the vigor of a man who has known poverty intimately. And, on the prime issue of constitutional reform, the prerequisite of any liberal program, Volpe's position is impeccable...
...that Sartre has been sitting around like an ugly toad since 1957 walling for the opportunity to spit at the Nobel Prize Committee. Albert Camus was their selection that year. Is Sartre just a poor loser? It seems hard to believe, for he had a deep respect for Camus. Besides Sartre has had Simone, a series of best-sellers, and seven years to recover. Now when the honor which was sooner or later to be his has come it seems a rather ineffectual and stupid gesture to refuse. Peter R. Berreill...
...sense of stature seems to deepen Humphrey, make him more untouchables. Always deserving of our applause, now he seems to demand our respect. And if his new awareness does not congeal into Websterian pomposity, we may have a national figure who will lead not only with his mind but with his manner...