Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...come to respect Mr. Jordan as a coach and as a gentleman during the two and one-half weeks of practice this year," Isenberg declared...
They have treated him as a political cipher--Cunningham displaying extraordinarily bad taste, others with somewhat more respect, Fast with reverence and fury--failing completely to treat his death apart from its possible political significance. They have distorted and misconstrued the fact of his death for their own partisan purposes...
...Millikin, Republican from Colorado, 59, an able lawyer and one of the Senate's best tax minds. Millikin got rich on oil, and became a politician only in 1941. He is a solid, serviceable stabilizer. Witty and popular, and the Republicans' best cloakroom statesman, he commands great respect among his colleagues...
Hidden Sparks. The U.S. synagogue is no longer a community of believers, Herberg says. "This means that, in a very, basic respect, the synagogue of today is no longer the synagogue of the entire Jewish past. There have always been unbelievers . . . but in former times these people . . . were held in reproach by themselves and their fellow Jews. Only since the last century, and perhaps only in the past generation or two, has it become 'normal' for ... synagogue members to believe in and observe nothing in particular. This is surely something portentous...
...Ralph Flanagan was just an essential but unexciting fixture. As an arranger for Crooner Perry Como, he was usually puttering around with a pencil making last-minute changes in the scores. Sometimes he played the piano in the band. But last week, Ralph Flanagan was being treated with new respect: almost overnight, recording with a band of his own, he had become the fastest flash seller in Victor's history...