Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total of eleven persons (the embassy staff alone totaled 87 U.S. citizens, plus 120 Cuban employees). President Eisenhower held an 8:30 a.m. meeting with top military and foreign-policy advisers, decided to break off diplomatic relations immediately. "There is a limit to what the United States in self-respect can endure," said the President. "That limit has now been reached...
...Emperor's private coach was due to pass, lest some passenger catch an accidental glimpse of him. Now, wearing the embarrassed look of a man intruding, he visited every prefecture in the country, climbing down mine shafts, trudging through factories, talking to peasants in paddyfields. He won wide respect for continuing to live in a damp, one-story, concrete air-raid shelter on the palace grounds. "The people are suffering too from lack of housing," he declared. But when the occupation ended in 1952, the seven zealous chief court chamberlains again rang down the Chrysanthemum Curtain between the Emperor...
...With a small force." he says, "the Air Force has to be proficient in every respect." O'Donnell's Air Force is; yet it is still uncomfortable in its role. All its atomic capabilities are next to useless in countries like Laos. "It's like knocking an ant off a bicycle," says O'Donnell. But the Air Force notes that Red China, if it cares to ask for trouble, offers a number of atom-sized military targets...
...Ghana, if a child should die before it is nine days old, the Fanti simply stuff its remains in a pot and throw it on the trash heap-they take the child's hasty departure as an insult and feel no obligation to respect the departed. Among Orthodox Jews, when two dead men arrive for burial at a cemetery, the more learned of the two, according to Talmudic prescription, must be buried first. In the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia, the Salish Indians dispose of their dead by rolling an avalanche over them. In China, since the Communists took...
During the recent campaign, Mr. Thomas E. Murray wrote letters to the candidates urging a resumption of atomic bomb tests, and four nuclear physicists have questioned his technical competence in respect to the problem. He has replied, questioning the competence of the scientists to express their views on questions of policy, and has pointed out that errors of judgment on technical questions have been made by some of them in the past. The whole argument revolves around the questions of the development of nuclear weapons and of an international agreement to discontinue bomb tests. We have accepted such a discontinuance...