Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first whirlwind week in Manchuria, Chen invited 100 bigwigs to a tea party in Mukden. While his notable guests were sipping tea, Chen made them a little speech: "You gentlemen here can trust me when I say I have never squeezed. In this respect-to make a joke-I am 50 years old and like the spinster who has gone through many hard years struggling to keep her virtue spotless and knowing well that relations with a man even once would have ruined her reputation forever." Politely the 100 guests laughed...
Washington Luiz returned to a Brazil that could report progress under her year-old democratic Constitution. The fact of the Constitution itself was significant. "That," said a Brazilian, "gives us something to respect." President Eurico Caspar Dutra and Brazil's army had followed constitutional procedure when they suppressed the Communist party (TIME, May 19), and had acted only after obtaining the approval of the courts...
...Near East. The friend and teacher of sheiks, princes and prime ministers, he knows how to eat rice and roast lamb the Arab way. He also knows how to lecture his Arab friends like a kindly if somewhat exasperated uncle, without losing their affection or respect. His favorite lecture topics: the inadequacy of "political formulae and agitation" to solve Arab Asia's problems; the need for hard work, sacrifice and faith...
...President Shukri Bey Kuwatly of Syria, Bayard Dodge recently founded a new school in Damascus, and he has promised to build a modern agricultural college in Iraq. En route to Syria last week, as first director of the new Damascus College, was an American with a name known with respect in the Near East. The new director: Howard Huntington ("Hunt") Bliss, 45, grandson of A.U.B.'s founder and brother-in-law of Bayard Dodge...
...opening game draws near, the team finds itself fairly well off with respect to injuries. While a number of key players were sidelined during the week leading up to last year's curtainraiser with Connecticut, the squad this fall has come through several weeks of scrimmage and two rough contests with Boston College without serious casualties...