Word: applaudable
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...applaud the vigor and depth of Kissinger's arms control proposal [March 21]: his approach in which the U.S. should unilaterally implement a plan of its own even if the Soviet Union does not go along makes the U.S. the leader rather than the follower. More important, it shows the world that this country is committed to world peace...
...strong, macho hunk danced by Keith McDaniel. Meanwhile, Ragtime (Ralph Glenmore), a cool Black dude reminiscent of Ben Vereen, laughs at lovers, audience and himself. He turns to the back of the stage, produces "magical" effects on the lighting, and waits for the audience to applaud...
...might-have-beens" connected with such anticlimaxes as the unsuccessful assassination of Hitler on July 20, 1944, the Berlin Blockade of 1948, the soon vanquished East German uprising of June 17, 1953, even the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 However much we may lament or applaud the eventual denouement of these prospectively momentous watersheds, they did turn out somehow to be arrested turning points, fizzles on the stage of long-term historical developments...
...demure three fingers) and murmuring pleasantries to all. As Queen of Jamaica, she also addressed Parliament. The speech, composed by Foreign Office gnomes, was hardly great oratory, but it was met with an awkward silence only be cause the assembled Members thought it might be bad form to applaud...
...must applaud the restraint of Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone [Jan. 24] in not saying, "If Americans made cars, TVs and calculators more attractive to the consumer than ours, the U.S. would not have a trade problem...