Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When Britain went to war with the Boers in 1899, the bookish lawyer became a commando general whom the British soon learned to respect. When the war was over, Smuts used both toughness and brilliance to persuade the British to give South Africa dominion status, and Britain's former enemy turned into Britain's enduring friend. Many a Boer called him "Slim [sly] Jannie" thereafter...
...that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or outside of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and never reveal." Instead, the declaration covers the confidential doctor-patient relationship thus: "I will respect the secrets which are confided...
Adequate & Makeshift. The bill gave Harry Truman more authority than he had asked, but nowhere near the authority which Bernard Baruch recommended in his dramatic statement a month after the Korean war began (TIME, Aug. 7). In some respects the bill was adequate; in one respect it was a sorry makeshift...
Some competent British players give ballast to the supporting cast, and Actor Welles proves surprisingly convincing as the tough Mongol general. Yet, with all the equipment for a spectacle, the film is likely to leave moviegoers feeling cheated -and nursing a healthy new respect for Cecil B. DeMille...
...They do not grant that it is the pattern of Oriental psychology to respect and follow aggressive, resolute and dynamic leadership-to quickly turn from a leadership characterized by timidity or vacillation . . . Nothing in the last five years has so inspired the Far East as the American determination to preserve the bulwarks of our Pacific Ocean strategic position from future encroachment...