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Some 1,350 delegates from Communist Parties in 55 countries assembled in Moscow's Great Kremlin Palace to sit on straight wooden seats through long hours of speeches, to acquiesce in what they were told, and to applaud methodically...
...King of Swing is playing for dancing once again, and he is bucking a trend he himself started 20 years ago when Benny and his free-swinging sidemen had youngsters clustering around the bandstand to squeal and applaud their riffs and licks. Swing was the thing, and in 1938 Benny Goodman set an altitude record for jazzmen with his concert at Carnegie Hall...
Berry went on to applaud the fund's policy of not restricting the school's use of the grants. "The educational value throughout the country of what you are doing," Berry wrote, "is even more significant than the money which you give us. It is also of national importance because we feel that tomorrow's medicine is in the laboratory today...
Bugles and a Tiger is a soldier's book, and anyone who scoffs at the soldier's trade will not appreciate its virtues. But after two World Wars and a "police action," there should be quite a few U.S. readers who will applaud the sometimes sentimental, consistently knowledgeable and colorful account of one man's devo tion to duty...
Author Keith's Philippines is still a place where buses are haunted by vengeful spirits of killed pedestrians and passengers delightedly applaud when a driver outraces a rival, where the press seriously reports the latest woman to give birth to miraculous twins, one a man-child and the other "the loveliest, dainty little four-legged roan mare that the neighbors have ever seen...