Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek Republic," who was born on what was the Turkish island of Crete, singlehanded doubled the area of modern Greece, tripled its population, dethroned and throned its Kings, led its only winning wars and won for it a prestige based, not on its actual importance, but on the respect his character had won at the council tables of Europe. As last week opened he was in exile in Paris, beloved of half the Greeks, hated by the other half. Grippe settled in his lungs. His old heart was tired. It stopped. The most important political fact in Greece this week...
...Samurai brother-in-law's sacrifice was in one respect vain. Admiral Okada, after his spectacular "resurrection," found it impossible to remain Premier because of pressure from the middle-aged Japanese Radical-Militarists whose young Army assassins so narrowly failed to kill him. Admiral Okada last week had retired from office into deepest political oblivion-his career assassinated by weapons more subtle than the bullets which slew his brother...
...expose of the Fascist methods used by our present Administration to maintain political power in your article on Emil Hurja [TIME, March 2]. I had a taste of it in our local WPA and resent to the innermost core of my being this threat to personal freedom and self respect. And what could be more brazen than the frank acknowledgment and the making scientific of a spoils system that smells to high heaven. It is high time we wrested the fate of our citizens from the clutches of the politician and entrusted it to those trained in public administration. Such...
...existence of a demilitarized zone on our German frontier constituted protection behind which we felt less exposed. If it is true that no country in the world today is able to assure its own security alone, it is even surer when applied to a small nation, for which respect for international law assumes capital importance...
...cried, "to compliments, threats, warnings, disrespect or disapproval. With trance-like surety, I go the way on which Destiny guides me. . . . Therefore, with His grace. I will act for the Germans and their interests. . . . Nobody shall tell me there is such and such an international institution that I must respect...