Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Supposing ten years ago your grandmother passed away," continued Lem, bowing his head in an automatic reflex of respect. "Maybe she had one of our high-class caskets, maybe she had the middle or low class. Whatever she had, when tragedy strikes your family again . . . you're going to want the same job as your dear grandmother got. But it can't be done . . . You'll have to have the wood; won't be any more steel. Sure, we can fix up the inside a little extra-more plush and all-but folks like the outside...
...splintered. Asked why he struck the King, the fisherman replied that he feared him because the King ruled through fear. Chastened Kamehameha pondered, then issued the decree that became the island's bill of rights until 1840, when Hawaii got its first constitution. In effect the law urged: "Respect your God. Respect also the small man, the big man, women & children, and may they ever walk the highways or sleep by the wayside without fear...
...simple manners and is an amusing man. I suppose he imitates Stalin. He likes to be 'Old Father Ho' to the people and 'Uncle Ho' to the children. This offsets some of the harm the Communists have done themselves by overthrowing the cult of respect to our ancestors which we Tonkinese have inherited from Confucius. Sometimes Ho recites verse. Sometimes he cracks a joke. I remember once-in Annamite we use the same word for 'cholera' as for 'left'-we had an outbreak of cholera, and he told the minister of health...
...screen, its Indians are proud, dignified warriors with their own cultural tradition, a stern code of honor and a justified hatred of the white invaders. Their tribal chief, Cochise (well played by Jeff Chandler), is an able strategist and a wise statesman. The story works up such sympathy and respect for him and his tribe, and such distrust of their ignorant, arrogant enemies, that most moviegoers will be delighted whenever another paleface bites the dust...
...last things he wrote was a memorandum about his dislike of her and all her works. In 1946, when he heard that she was dead of cancer, he wrote: "I can't say it touches me. I had lost not only all regard, but all respect...