Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handsome, young (32) King Mohamed Zahir Shah wound up the week's celebration by expressing Afghanistan's neutrality policy in hard-boiled terms: "Afghanistan always wished and still wishes for the respect of its rights, freedom and integrity. It cannot accept in the slightest anything injurious or limiting the rights and independence of this country...
...early Machine Age days when most U.S. citizens were artists and craftsmen because they had to be, few of them thought much about art. They made quilts, candlesticks and rocking chairs beautiful out of respect for the crafts their parents had taught them plus an instinct for simple utility. This week 111 carefully detailed watercolors of their works went on view in Washington's National Gallery, labeled art with a capital...
Most of the "phonies" and "junketeers" went home after the first test. Generally they were not the newsmen who had put it on the line during the war, and had won a respect in the armed services that they had never had before. Veteran correspondents were not the ones who brazenly toted cases of liquor aboard, made the lives of Negro stewards miserable; got off the dirty-joke ship "news" paper which must have startled Russia's silent correspondent A. M. Khoklov, a captain in the Soviet navy. Baldwin's recommendation: a permanent accreditation committee of newsmen...
...Error. Professor Northrop, who teaches the philosophy of science at Yale, will not abide condemnation of science as such. "Nothing," he says, "can do more harm to democracy than the thesis, so popular with many contemporary moral and religious leaders, that science is neutral, if not positively evil, with respect to human values...
...this creeping apoplexy are found, after death, to be covered with hundreds of "infarcts" where a tiny blood clot has choked off the surrounding tissues. (As an old lady once told Alvarez: "Death takes little bites.") Symptoms: overnight the victim ages quickly, becomes querulous, may lose his self-respect, may deteriorate morally...