Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begins to count something on his fingers, then having lost his aplomb, his face breaks into a smile, he waves his arms and begins himself to applaud the question...
...last week, 1,000 patrons-many of them conventioneering Rotarians-streamed into the theater each night to applaud the delicate Shaw-Campbell exchanges. Some fidgeted at the length: two full hours on a virtually bare stage. But almost everyone enjoyed the unfolding affair by letter, which began in 1899 when Actress Campbell was at the height of her beauty and Playwright Shaw at the beginning of his brilliance, and ended in 1940 when Mrs. Campbell died in bitter poverty and Shaw at 82 plaintively wrote...
...sleekly barbered businessman at ringside nodded his approval ("Frankie's voice has cracked a little, but what the hell . . . so's mine"). He seemed unbothered by what the night with Sinatra was costing him. The sunburned blonde who shared his table dropped a bone to applaud, her diamonds glittering; she seemed bemused by what a night of Sinatra might be worth. Whatever the song -Willow Weep for Me, I've Got You Under My Skin, The Lady Is a Tramp-Frankie's unmatched showmanship, his sad, slow baritone, his baggy, bedroom eyes got the message across...
...want to applaud the exceptionally fine piece of journalism on existentialism and Dr. Rollo May's thoughts concerning its use as an approach in psychotherapy [Dec. 29]. However, I am puzzled by its placement in your Medicine section. This particular way of man looking at himself is so encompassing that the effects are felt in every aspect of living. It would be more meaningful to the reader to be introduced to existentialism (and other such concepts) in a setting that focuses his thinking on himself rather than on the physician as the one who "cures...
President Eisenhower has said of the Foreign Policy Association, "I applaud its continuing work to stimulate citizens." Secretary of State Dulles called it "an effective and typically American way of working...