Word: applaud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such a hot record when it comes to dealing with foreign governments of which, on moral grounds, it should loudly disapprove. The rationale is familiar: at least they're our sons of bitches. Israel has never been in that category. It is a nation that America should and does applaud, making any moments of dissatisfaction exceptions that prove the rule. Half a world away lives a remarkable civilization born of a moral issue, suffused with moral questions, most of whose people know perfectly well when their government is right and when it is wrong. The present government in Israel...
...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
...rule limiting him to two consecutive one-year terms. Now he and his closest associates, including Sun and Tsang, have been excluded from the exchange's reorganized governing committee. Some Hong Kong traders were concerned about how the market would react to Li's arrest. Investors, however, seemed to applaud the government's crackdown. Last week the Hang Seng index rose 6.5%, to 2452.52, though it still stood nearly 40% below the peak it had reached before the crash...
...lovely," announced the onetime lecturer on Marxist-Leninist philosophy at Moscow State University. At the National Gallery, when employees gathered to applaud her, she stopped to chat, noting that she was "glad to see so many of the staff are women." On a White House tour, she peppered Nancy Reagan with queries: Was that a 19th century chandelier? Did Jefferson live here? And, by the way, when was the White House built? The First Lady, already irritated by her visitor's magnetic gravitation toward the television cameras, was stumped. An assistant curator came to the rescue with dates: between...
...felt almost as if I were watching some spectator sport. Although I did not see it happen, I heard later on the news that occasionally some people in the crowd would applaud and whistle as the government troops stepped up their attack...