Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans seem to have an infinite capacity for doing the wrong thing. The recent fiasco in Cuba is a perfect example of the folly of sending a boy to do a man's job. The American Indians were smarter in this respect. They let the young men do the fighting but reserved policymaking for the old men of the tribe...
Claques & Jeers. Menderes & Co. had clearly been incompetent, venal, corrupt and highhanded. Personally, Bayar has won reluctant respect by his stiff-necked dignity, apologizing for nothing, defiantly reminding his judges that he is an old man and indifferent to what they can do to him. Menderes has lost stature by his air of abject humility and his voluble eagerness to shift responsibility to anybody but himself. To many of his once fervent supporters, he no longer seems like the great man who ran Turkey so smoothly and so long...
...President of the flourishing Ivory Coast. A physician and plantation owner who served for 13 years in the French Assembly before his country became independent, Houphouet-Boigny is a sharp contrast to the rabble-rousers who make most of Africa's news, and he is slowly gaining respect as a leader who recognizes that shrill demagoguery is no solution to Africa's ills. Months ago he conceived the idea of a conference of all African leaders, with the modest aim of soberly exploring their common problems. As it turned out, the delegates who came to Monrovia represent...
...Delphian as many of his remarks, it obviously suggested that he was not joining any hunt-Castro posse. Said Quadros: "Brazil is opposed to any foreign intervention, direct or indirect, to impose on Cuba any given form of government. The principle of nonintervention applies even with respect to adoption of a system of representative government, a system that Brazil prefers, recommends and practices as the best for the Americas." By intervention, said Quadros, he meant diplomatic, economic, military, or even ideological. "Brazil will defend the Cuban people's right to self-determination...
...smaller; along with the added prestige commanded by a small group should come tighter, more responsible organization and more productive meetings. Still, the fact that this system is no remarkable change from the status quo leaves serious doubt that it will solve the Council dilemma: lack of communication and respect...