Word: acclaim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II, Brazil transported two armies. One sailed to Italy and fought, returned to a heroes' acclaim. Another, an 18,000-strong labor army, went north to the Amazon to gather rubber for a needy Ally-and never came back. By last week, its disappearance was a major national scandal...
Until the 12th Century saints were created quickly and easily by popular acclaim or by decree of local bishops. But by the decrees of Pope Urban VIII in 1625 and 1634, the process of canonization began to be tightened. Today the barriers to sainthood, both ecclesiastical and financial, are formidable. So expensive is the long church inquiry that Catholic Biographer Theodore Maynard says: ". . . It might seem that nobody (however holy) has much chance of being canonized today who does not belong to a religious order prepared to pay the costs, unless he can arouse such popular enthusiasm as to have...
Garfield and Turner have done as much for this hodge-podge as any two mis-cast screensters can accomplish in one film. "Postman," if it hadn't been so thoroughly "improved" between story and script, would have come closer to acclaim as a first-rate movie...
Whitney loves acclaim: his official biographer refers to him as "the miracle man of railroad wage movements." He considers himself a political leader on the liberal side, likes to quote Single-Taxer Henry George. He has lent his name to several left-wing organizations, some of them Communist-hued. He was an early and ardent supporter of Franklin Roosevelt and thought several times that he would become his Secretary of Labor...
Patti Clayton, radio songstress best known for the way she peals Chiquita Banana, moved the Banana Dealers Association to acclaim her Miss Banana Royal...