Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applaud our countryman's excellence, we should keep in mind that he really isn't a very talented ambassador yet. Maybe he could take some lessons in protocol from elder statesmen Stan Smith and Arthur Ashe, men who never had McEnroe's talents but who nonetheless dominated the game for short periods with grace and good humor...
Some criminal law experts may believe that Judge Kenneth Browne was wrong to exclude a confession obtained as a result of the incompetence of the defendant's lawyer. Others will applaud that ruling, which enforces the principle that every defendant in a serious criminal case has a right to a competent lawyer...
...grisly response" when he and others stood in dining halls to ask students to join in a protest of a screening of "Cruising," a movie that gay students believed stereotyped gays as thugs. Schatz recalls, "We would say. 'This movie encourages violence against gays and lesbians.' And people would applaud...
...competing with each other for profit and fame. In a world as brim full of the commercial and the exploitative as ours, Harvard should serve as a sanctuary of something higher. And though we are not convinced these were the only reasons for rejecting the commercial enterprise, we applaud his decision...
From the tropical jungles of Zaire to the snowscapes of Anchorage, the Pope has shown an ability to make people applaud, laugh, cry and sing. Shedding the reserve of his predecessors, he has hummed along on the folk tunes, or joshed the crowds who would not let him go. In Cracow, Poland...