Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ingalls finished and looked up. Taftmen leaped to their feet to applaud, but the ovation was noticeably lighter than it had been at the beginning. Two seats away, Earl Warren, his face frozen in a faint quarter-smile, applauded perfunctorily. Cabot Lodge gave two handclaps, got up from the speakers' table and strode angrily from the platform...
TIME [Nov. 26] erred in its inclusion of me among the members of the Playwrights' TV Theater, an organization which has no relation to the Playwrights' Company (for the production of stage plays) of which I am a member. However, I beg to applaud Elmer Rice's action in resigning and his admirable statement, which you quoted, of his reasons therefor...
...bitter that hissing interrupted all newsreels, but Sumner merely ordered his ushers to inform all hissers that they were disturbing other patrons. One evening he himself noticed a man who was hissing "like a steampipe." He asked the man to stop. The man answered "You allow people to applaud don't you. Well then, I'm going to hiss...
...their limousines. But the people poured on-platoons of lawyers, doctors and merchants, wearing tarbooshes, mingled with battalions of factory workers and street peddlers in skull caps. Copts, Moslems and sheiks marched arm in arm under banners showing the cross and the crescent joined. When spectators began to applaud, the demonstrators shushed them into silence; the sound, reported TIME Correspondent Jim Bell, was a low hum like locusts in a field of grain. Overhead flew banners screaming "Get out, dirty English!" Posters showed British soldiers bayoneted through the throat. When the marchers came within hailing distance of the King...
Though the brothers Taft have often differed, brother Charlie misses no opportunity to applaud brother Bob. (In 1940 Charles Taft masterminded the campaign which almost won Bob the presidential nomination.) Bob seems content to leave Charlie out of the limelight. Bob's Republican orthodoxy recently moved him to say that if Senator Joe McCarthy is nominated for re-election he would support him, but underlined: "I never take sides in a Republican primary." At the news of brother Charlie's intentions, he maintained his frigidly correct attitude. Said he: "I'm not going to take any part...