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Word: respectful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Willem Alberts owns the nightclub Pompidou near The Hague, and just before the Common Market summit conference in that city, he received a phone call from the French embassy. Out of respect for President Georges Pompidou, he was asked to rename his establishment. "Well, I could change the spelling from Pompidou to Pompidoe," said he. "It's the same pronunciation in Dutch. But you will have to pay the cost of changing my neon sign." Not a word since from the embassy, which apparently does not feel that one letter is worth the price ($20). Anyway, Pompidou loves nightclubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 26, 1969 | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...respect that I need...

Author: By J. Hinson, | Title: No Headline | 12/17/1969 | See Source »

This does not mean that college is an experience to be avoided just because it is "irrelevant": it is one to be enjoyed. The absence of males makes a college no less "normal" in this respect: it is an even more contrived situation. After graduation most girls will either be living with only one male or in an apartment with other women. In either case, eligible males will not necessarily be present day and night, either around her residence or the place where she works...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Must Wellesley Go Coed To Survive? | 12/16/1969 | See Source »

...Harvard's hockey team will lose several more games this winter, but it is doubtful that any future defeat will be more frustrating, or in one respect, more costly than the one it suffered Saturday evening to Brown at Watson Rink...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Puckers Defeated; Thinclads Destroy Army | 12/15/1969 | See Source »

...recent Selective Service bulletin states that "It is still impossible for Selective Service to attempt to calibrate all of the contingencies which might arise, and over which the Selective Service System has no control, that might alter the original Department of Defense estimate with respect to the various levels of vulnerability for the numbers that were drawn in the lottery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: None May Be Free From Draft, Selective Service Director Claims | 12/13/1969 | See Source »

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