Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people's revolutions in all countries" to overthrow "corrupt" rulers. Once that has been done, people are so innately good, he says. that they will require only "minimum control by government." Except for the fact that nuclear war would "lead to humanity's end," Aruga would applaud a death struggle between the West and Communism-it would simply be a "futile struggle between different sorts of bureaucrats...
...walk, "so as not to use government transportation''-his countrymen once again recalled that, for all his political sins. Syngman Rhee. 85, was nonetheless the father of South Korea's independence. The crowds that two days earlier had been calling for his death began to applaud him. And when he reached Pear Blossom House, where he placidly settled down to trimming his hedges under the eyes of a respectful throng, he was greeted by a hastily improvised sign: "Grandfather, be at peace in the sunshine and live a long time...
...Garibaldini." unlike the stars, will not keep their distance. When his dashing nephew Tancredi joins the revolutionary redshirts, Don Fabrizio is forced to applaud the boy's dry, foxy reasoning: "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." As his next tactic for keeping things as they are by changing them, Tancredi stoops beneath his class to conquer Angelica, the daughter of a provincial mayor who is picking up parcels of land as fast as Don Fabrizio drops them. The cold calculation and hot sensuality of their courtship, as it rages through...
...students asked Ike to explain U.S. policy in Latin America; in particular, they wanted to know U.S. intentions and attitude towards Cuba. "We know and applaud your recent official declaration, serene and respectful, with regard to the self-determination of the Cuban nation," they wrote. "We are also discouraged by the length of one man's term in office and the lack of institutions based on the will of the people." But the students deplored U.S. press reporting of Cuba, and darkly suspected that Washington plans intervention against Castro on behalf of U.S. sugar companies that own land...
...piped the loudspeakers of Rio's Little Maracana sport stadium one evening last week. From overhead, a glittering crystal Sputnik twirled down, antennas spinning, lights blinking. Spotlights glared as it landed, picked out a sequin-spangled man and woman dangling from it. The couple waved, the crowd applauded, and a troupe of animal trainers, tumblers, clowns and acrobats raced into the arena to applaud back. As the Sputnik beeped back into orbit among the rafters, the famed Moscow circus cut loose with its spectacular show for the first time in the Western Hemisphere...