Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irresponsible leaders of the South who would appease a screaming minority of white racists simply to further their own political ambitions. It is time the national press expended more energy in extolling the virtues of men born and bred in the South who have a decent and abiding respect for the law of the land. Surely there must be more men whose voices are rendered inaudible by extremists...
...members of the Council busied them selves all week trying to get a proposal on paper that might satisfy everyone. In the preamble, where the difficult legal issue is focused, they came up with some vague verbiage that merely reminds all member states that the Charter obliges them to respect the territorial integrity and independence of other members. Even this was too much for the Turks, who want no weakening of their rights under the Treaty of Guarantee. So the delegates went back to work on another compromise version for consideration by the Council...
Momma, Momma, Momma. Cassius' narcissistic posturing was not meant to convince. "Actually," he confided, "I respect Liston. That look of his shakes me." It was meant to humor, to prod, to annoy, to con Champion Liston into thinking that a young (22), tall (6 ft. 3 in.), sturdy (210 Ibs.) heavyweight with 119 amateur and pro victories behind him would be easy pickings for the man-monster who had twice butchered Floyd Patterson. And, my, how he succeeded, thanks to his unwitting accomplices, the sportswriters...
...Harvard alone--my first trip east of Chicago--and was confronted with the incredible, if perhaps--may I add this now?--slightly pretentious erudition of a select group of Harvard plumbers, clearly much better prepared for what lay ahead than I. But may I also say that the great respect I acquired for Harvard plumbers at that time, though it may have changed character, has never been diminished in even slight degree by prolonged association with them...
...School Committee demonstrated twice Monday night that it is not completely immune to reason. First it voted 4-1 to cooperate with the State Board of Education's order that each local community take a racial census of its schools. In doing so, Committee members were merely practicing the respect for authority which they preached so loudly before the school boycott...