Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time and again, the Communists and their Socialist allies leaped to their feet to applaud and cheer. Premier Scelba sat dourly throughout. Afterwards, new President Gronchi received the Christian Democrats' party boss Amintore Fanfani and told him: "Let's hope my election will bring about a distensione in this country, which I, as chief of state, will do my best to promote." "Distensione" is Italian for easing of tension, and its advocates mean by it not only coexisting with Russia as a nation, but coexisting at home with sweet-talking fellow travelers in an old-style popular front...
...alcohol entirely but to learn to control it. This war with her own weakness is described by her daughter with a candor that never sacrifices dignity. When Laurette Taylor shows the dimensions of her victory on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie, many a reader will want to applaud. When her death comes nearly two years later, it seems not so much a tragedy as a curtain to triumph...
...wish I were a contemporary Buddha-or even an octopus- so that I might have more than our allotted number of hands to applaud you for having published those pertinent excerpts of Major General John R. Deane's letter to General George Marshall, written before the now hysteric Yalta fiasco. Had the late F.D.R. seen fit to heed it (instead of hide it!) during those mollycoddling, vodka-swigging days, God only knows how much more beautiful the world might have been today. "We Must Be Tougher" should be rammed down the throats of every American who still vacillates between...
...Laborite M.P. Hector McNeil thought that "if Jesus came back, He would see much to admire and much that would distress Him, and, on balance. I humbly suspect more to applaud than to condemn. For man improves. Compassion . . . has grown more lively in our country . . . the young-and no less the hungry, the enfeebled and the aged-have become a high charge on our national effort...
Moore stated "I am not speaking officially for the Club, but I personally applaud Miller's action with the utmost viger...