Word: respects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baldwin thinks that the Japanese have lost their awe of the Emperor, retain only respect and curiosity. He talked with Hirohito, found him "intelligent, quick and agreeable," but very much of a "man who had been managed. Hirohito always seemed to be looking for someone to give him a cue. To break the ice I brought candy for his kids. He got real folksy and asked me about my kids at home...
...world's most efficient farmhands: it does an enormous amount of soil conservation. Toiling underground, the hard-working worms in one acre can eat, pulverize, fertilize, aerate and move ten tons of earth in a year's time. Charles Darwin, who had a profound respect for the earthworm, doubted whether "there are many other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world...
...motivated chiefly by a desire for security and is sincerely interested in building an order in Europe wherein there is safety for other nations as well, the action of the United States would be a good will gesture of unprecedented proportions; it would make "dollar diplomacy" a term of respect rather than one of derogation, and would help Europeans to see Americans as Americans see themselves...
...other hand, U.N. still commanded the respect of statesmen because it was a forum for mustering world opinion. The organization's high point had come in April 1946, when it made the Red Army get out of Persia. Thus, thanks largely to U.N. and its imposing moral force, Persia had a Government free of Russian domination...
...viruses are alike in one respect: they are parasites that can operate only in a living cell. But they differ greatly in size, looks and behavior. They also show astonishing individuality. Some are round, some shaped like rods, some have tails like tadpoles. A few, almost as complicated as bacteria, which are a higher form of life, even have partial enzyme systems to help digest their food. Most viruses are rabid specialists and choosy about what they invade. Some thrive only in plants, some only in certain animals, some only in man, some only in certain tissues; e.g., the influenza...