Word: applaudable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Please Applaud. In Tokyo's shiny new sports center, a crowd of 10,000 thronged to join the hallelujah chorus. Before a papier-mãché globe surmounted by doves, black-robed Shinto priests in formal vestments, shaved Buddhists in red, blue and saffron robes, turbaned Moslems and black-clad Japanese Episcopal ministers stood rigidly in silent prayer for peace...
...whose properties they looted, whose families they insulted and killed." This humility was echoed over a loud speaker at a baseball game between a badly outclassed team from MacArthur's headquarters and a team from the Japanese Ministry of Trade. "Please," the announcer urged the audience in Japanese, "applaud more loudly for the Americans...
...Primitive is written in that self-deceiving and deceptive style whose weakness will be mistaken by some for strength. It is clumsy and naive, but devotees of the unspoiled may call it simple and homespun and applaud when Feikema challenges (unsuccessfully) the tyranny of grammar. He has the sort of poetic gift that gets in the way of a good prose, and his recipe for flavoring his concoction is "salt-and-peppering the whole with many a dark adjective and adverb"-not to mention verbs. When Thurs wanted to get from one place to another, he "moosed," "giraffed" or "cameled...
...London townspeople first saw her three-year-old Yerma, a grim study of wifely frustrations, some were not sure how they liked it. Valerie's angular movements seemed almost as if they had been laid out with a carpenter's rule. Later, most found it easier to applaud her powerful adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying...
...Angeles, some camera stores were lending cameras to anyone who would buy film. When customers call for their prints, the stores give them a friendly sales talk, applaud the good shots, constructively criticize the poor ones, often talk them into buying cameras...