Word: respective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corps in North Africa during World War II, later served as assistant chief of Army ordnance before being assigned to Huntsville in November 1955. At Huntsville John Medaris welded 4,000 civilians and 1,000 military people into a close-working group. Medaris and Wernher von Braun have such respect for each other that Medaris wants the Army's next missile to be named the "Wernher." By function, Medaris is middleman between the space-at-all-costs Huntsville scientists and the cost-conscious Defense Department-and if Von Braun is mainly responsible for the blueprints that sent Explorer into...
...Vatican State Secretariat had the last word. Said an official spokesman: "The rank of Prince Assistant to the Holy See will be filled by Aspreno Colonna alone. It is to be expected that Filippo Orsini will have sufficient respect for himself and for others not to show himself at the Vatican again...
...House listened with hushed respect. "I am not here to criticize my colleagues or indeed my political opponents," he went on. As between the bank rate that he had raised to the highest level (7%) in 37 years and the physical controls that Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell advocates to check inflation, he confessed: "Neither of these works very well." Taxation, he said, "has already reached a point where I should think most men would admit it is inflationary in its effect...
...Jesuits, no mean missionaries themselves, have a healthy respect for the Paulists. The Jesuit weekly America once editorialized: "Many features of our Catholic missionary life in the United States at the present day were first popularized, if not actually invented, by the Paulist Fathers . . . These features were considered novel and rather radical when first proposed, [but] once tried out, they were found so practical that everyone took them for granted, and few remembered any more where they originated...
Wade Hunnicutt is the big man and big landowner of his county in Texas. He rates first not merely by virtue of wealth, but because he is the best hunter, the most responsible citizen, the man whose word commands immediate respect. Yet, at the same time, everyone suspects the truth about Wade and Hannah Hunnicutt's marriage-that he has slept with just about every other woman in the county. He has a preference for married women, and altogether too many youngsters in the town are dead ringers for Wade Hunnicutt. All this his wife Hannah knows, as well...