Word: applaud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laborites, even Wilson's potential foes, found some goodies to applaud in his program. He mollified the far left by urging greater trade with Russia and an East-West detente that would allow Britain to funnel defense spending into research. Old-fashioned chauvinists applauded his rosy vision of a Britain made great again, and Little Englanders cheered his declaration of independence from...
...irate editor found even less to applaud in the coverage from abroad. Adzhubei ticked off his gripes: Russia's foreign correspondents are poor in foreign languages; they produce meditations "bordering on bourgeois objectivity"; they are punk photographers; they spend all their time cribbing from the bourgeois press. "Where, as they say, is the burning information at first hand...
...Southern Presbyterian Church is a gently, insistently conservative group, both theologically and politically. Its 928,056 members, 99% white, officially support racial integration, applaud those of their churches that practice it, do not chide those that don't. They see merit in testing the literal Bible by scholarship-yet many quietly hold that every word is true. They hearken more closely to Calvin than do their more numerous Northern Presbyterian cousins. They anxiously question the need to lose their identity in ecumenicism. Last week, though under the pervading pressures of world Christianity to become a bit more liberal, they...
...anything to get a laugh. But he also possesses a great sense of timing and gift for mimicry, and in addition, he can almost sing. When he announced his affection for his girl Amy (Debbie Trowbridge) in the famous "Once in Love With Amy" the audience couldn't applaud enough...
...rockets." Worse yet, complained Castro, "what support did we get when we were on the verge of a major catastrophe? Where were the demonstrations in our favor? The great so-called revolutionary parties didn't move. They are satellites. Whenever Khrushchev makes a decision, these satellites applaud. When Khrushchev criticizes abstract painting, the satellites here ask me to outlaw abstract art. And I say to them, our enemies are capitalism and imperialism, not abstract painters...