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Word: applaud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you applaud a great defensive play thatoccurs in a movie, you know that it's realistic.Plus, even though most of the action is staged, itis frightengly accurate. In fact, the footage fromYankee Stadium and Fenway Park looks like it cameright off of NBC's Game of the Week...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Taking a Swing at the Movies | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

...lonely and failing man even in the midst of his righteous anger. In his Thursday statement to the nation, his smile was just a bit too forced, his somber- visaged Democratic congressional colleagues in dark formation behind him just a bit too straight-backed and eager to applaud. Something was slipping away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Speaker Should Step Down | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...problem today, however, is that this curiosity is drawing our attention from substantive concerns. We may applaud the fact that the Bush White House is a lot more open than the secretive and "basement" attitudes of the Reagan days, but the press is reporting the diversion, not the issue...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Keeping the Press Barking up the Wrong Tree | 4/22/1989 | See Source »

Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady praised the bill, saying, "[We] applaud the Senate's efforts to maintain strong capital requirements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senators Approve Savings and Loan Plan | 4/21/1989 | See Source »

Although I dislike in general advertising that appeals to sexual insecurity, I have to applaud the folks at Johnny Walker for the latest of the series, which ran in the April issue of The Atlantic Monthly. It follows the same format as its predecessors--two handsome men discussing the allure of a new sexual prospect. Except in this ad, they're referring to another...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Fusion, Boozin' and Snoozin' | 4/13/1989 | See Source »

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