Word: applaudable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them right down in the front row and told them that they should agitate and squeal and holler . . ." Then, presenting Bill Lawrence ("the boy you love so much"), Godfrey made one final plea: "He loves your appreciation, but you don't have to squeal. Just applaud him when he gets through...
...heard only with difficulty. He was sure, he said, that he would have the help and support of officers who were in the room, and of all in the Navy. There was a dead silence when he concluded. When the ceremony was over, many admirals pointedly went downstairs to applaud Admiral Denfeld on his way out of the building...
...Jefferson Military College near Natchez, Miss., the money was still rolling in. It came, largely in five-and ten-dollar bills, from people all over the U.S. who wrote to applaud the 147-year-old prep school for turning down Oilman George W. Armstrong's proposed endowment with a crackpot list of "white supremacy" strings attached (TIME, Nov. 7). Last week, with $9,314 in the till from well-wishers, Jefferson had enlisted a special fundraiser. He was Vice Admiral Aaron Stanton ("Tip") Merrill, a Pacific task force commander in World War II and onetime chief of Navy public...
...Cannot Allow." The Stettinius excuse for F.D.R.'s tragic weakness on the Polish issue is that the Russians were already in Poland. From a statesman, such reasoning seems to applaud the bankruptcy of statesmanship. Stalin was capable of straighter talk on the subject. Said he at Potsdam: "A freely elected government in any of these [eastern European] countries would be anti-Soviet, and that we cannot allow." U.S. readers may wonder why the U.S. delegation could not have guessed that as well as Stalin...
...University of Kentucky, has researched The Way West with impressive care. The speech of the time, the day-by-day ordeal of the people, the description of the land as it then looked, the realistic handling of Indians, will make even the closest student of the U.S. West applaud...