Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bugles and a Tiger is a soldier's book, and anyone who scoffs at the soldier's trade will not appreciate its virtues. But after two World Wars and a "police action," there should be quite a few U.S. readers who will applaud the sometimes sentimental, consistently knowledgeable and colorful account of one man's devo tion to duty...
Author Keith's Philippines is still a place where buses are haunted by vengeful spirits of killed pedestrians and passengers delightedly applaud when a driver outraces a rival, where the press seriously reports the latest woman to give birth to miraculous twins, one a man-child and the other "the loveliest, dainty little four-legged roan mare that the neighbors have ever seen...
...Treasury of Stories for All Occasions, and 1001 Ways to Improve Your Conversation and Speeches.* Some Prochnow advice: "Do not overemphasize to the listener or reader that the story you are about to relate is an extraordinarily good one. Your praise may be too lavish . . . You should not applaud your own story. If the story you have told has made no impression on the listener, do not repeat it in a vain attempt to get some response . . . Unless you are very good at it, never use a dialect in telling an anecdote...
...exactly applaud Coach Tracy Borah* of Northeastern College, Sterling, Colo., but he is no hypocrite.'' said the Trib. "Mr. Borah has been using our want ad columns to advertise for football players, which old Northeastern badly needs, having lost four of nine games last year. He has scholarships for 33 football players, 12 wrestlers. 15 track athletes, 15 baseball players and 15 basketball players, which means that more than one-third of the Northeastern enrollment will be getting a free ride...
...reunion class had someone special to applaud on the more serious side of the program. Its own Edward Biltcliffe '30 performed as piano soloist with the orchestra playing Lisst's "Hungarian Fantasy...