Word: respectability
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Nikita Khrushchev has lost stature. His ranting has cost him respect around the world...
...nation." Added Columnist Walter Lippmann: "The damage to our prestige would be irreparable if we all rallied around the President and pretended to think that there was nothing seriously wrong ... It is the dissenters and the critics and the opposition who can restore the world's respect for American competence." Then Adlai Stevenson went...
From Lewiston, Idaho came an answering echo from gallivanting Jack Kennedy, who had not been saying much about foreign affairs lately. "Our leadership appears palsied," he said, "and sympathy, not respect, is the reluctant sentiment we elicit from our allies-sympathy for the President as a man of good will, but dismay at the shocking lack in presidential directive as displayed in the U-2 incident. The maintenance of peace and the security of Berlin should not hang on the constant possibility of engine failure...
When he recovered, Malinovsky was assigned to the Iron Division, a crack Czarist outfit sent to France as a symbol of Allied solidarity. In France, Malinovsky acquired respect for British troops-"Ah, those British! Always smoking their pipes, even during an attack!"-and a sneaking liking for Americans: "The Russians and the Americans got along together, especially when it came to having a drink or smashing glasses in a café." But his fondest memories are of "those French girls." In Paris last week, he confided that the three phrases he could still manage in both English and French were...
...qualified to follow him than the shy and sheltered boy who was his namesake. Yet, when he died in a Tucson, Ariz, hospital last week, a frail and tired man of 86, John D. Rockefeller Jr. had turned the hatred and fear that surrounded his name into warmth and respect; he was mourned the world over, and he left the world a legacy that dwarfed the pyramids of the pharaohs...