Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inevitably become one of Washington's most hated men. The secret of Smith's freedom from enemies is that he is not a politician. Other officials resent him when he disrupts their pet schemes, lops their funds and authority. But their anger quickly cools. They know and respect him for what he is: a professional administrator, with no political ambitions, no special interests to serve, no social reforms to promote...
...tobacco-chewer's accuracy. Two of the men have been hit in the eye by ringhals (bathing the eyes with milk is a sure cure); all have been bitten at one time or another. They take lightly the threatening antics of the puff adder, but have plenty of respect for the swift black mamba, most dreaded of Af rican snakes, whose bite can kill in five minutes...
Confession. "I came out of college thinking that Theodore Roosevelt, whom I admired profoundly, was in this respect eccentric, that he kept harping on the Panama Canal and the navy. For in my youth we all assumed . . . that war was an affair that 'militarists' talked about and not something that seriously-minded progressive democrats paid any attention...
...they become postwar rivals in the domination of Europe or colonial countries; that nuclear alliances must be consolidated and perpetuated; that "the great powers must become the organizers of an order in which the other peoples find that their liberties are recognized by laws that the great powers respect and that all peoples are compelled to observe...
...missionaries themselves are leaders -but that is not all the point. They teach the people to provide their own leadership . . . develop . . . a sense of wellbeing, of self-reliance, of self-respect. . . . And that, I believe, is one of the chief causes for the good will toward the United States that now exists in almost every corner of the earth...