Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...authority to impound funds-refusing to spend money appropriated in bills that had become law. Although the political infighting over budget making is bound to go on, the skirmishing will at least take place within a more systematic framework. That is a prospect that every politician-and taxpayer-can applaud...
Some citizens seek escape in the wave of nostalgia for the 1950s or earlier. By the millions, they crowd into movies like American Graffiti and The Sting. They enthusiastically applaud the Andrews Sisters, the World War II singing sensations, whose songs are hot again and who will open on Broadway next month in a musical, Over Here...
...applaud TIME'S selection of Judge Sirica as Man of the Year...
...Crow all the way off stage, to tremendous applause. then he had to come right back out, panting, because he had promised to do Charlie Pride but I wouldn't want to get Charlie outta place for you, you gotta have him last. This time they stood up to applaud...
Despite that outcome, Sirica has been severely criticized by some legal authorities for using the provisional-sentencing procedure as a device to get the defendants to cooperate with investigators. "We must be concerned about a federal judge ?no matter how worthy his motives or how much we may applaud his results?using the criminal-sentencing process as a means and tool for further criminal investigation of others," contends Chesterfield Smith, president of the American Bar Association. The association's president-elect, James Fellers of Oklahoma City, much admires Sirica and his Watergate role but likens the sentencing tactic...