Word: respecting
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...protection from attack by forces which would deny them the ordinary liberties to which all members of the civil community are entitled. In return, they pledge themselves, as members of a learned profession and as responsible citizens, "at all times (to) be accurate, (to) exercise appropriate restraint, (to) show respect for the opinion of others," and to make every effort to indicate that they are not institutional spokesmen. Professors willingly recognize that "their special position in the community imposes special obligations." However, it would be exceedingly unfortunate if those "special obligations" were used by powerful segments of the public...
...Negro's experience of the white world cannot possibly create in him any respect for the standards by which the white world claims to live. His own condition is proof that white people do not live by these standards. Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people ... In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every...
...Must Cut." Ever since he went to Congress in 1922 (after a decade on Speaker Champ Clark's staff and as House parliamentarian), cranky Clarence has grumped around Capitol Hill, gaining few close friends, many enemies, and a great respect for his crafty mastery of the parliamentary and political intricacies of the House. A little fellow (5 ft. 7 in., 140 Ibs.), he has nonetheless had three fistfights with fellow Congressmen. His spending credo is simple: "We just must cut everything we can." Yet there is cause for his cantankerousness, which can only be born of frustration. For during...
...written his name all across the sky. We salute a great scientist, James Van Allen. There are quite a few people in this room who ought to have been on the cover of TIME and haven't been for various reasons. I should like now to pay my respects to all of them by saluting one of them, one who has not been on the cover for a unique but very poor reason: she married the editor in chief. I present to you with great respect and all my love, Clare Boothe Luce...
...Died. Mohammed Khemisti, 32, Algeria's young Foreign Minister, a staunch backer and longtime friend of Premier ben Bella, who put aside old hatreds to become the prime architect of Algeria's post-revolutionary cooperation with France, winning himself the high respect of Western diplomats; of a head wound received 24 days earlier when an insane Moslem shot him at point-blank range; in Algiers...