Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...applaud the special issue of TIME on "The South Today" [Sept...
...young Catholic, I applaud Bishop Lefebvre [Sept. 13]. The church should see that the Tridentine Mass in Latin is relevant. The essence of our faith is eternally relevant because it is true. We need the symbolism of the old rites to express to us the depth and mystery of the sacraments...
...dirt track has few amenities. Lighting is dim, spectators sit on concrete ledges. Yet Concord is a shrine. Junior Johnson, Tiny Lund and the illustrious Petty clan (Richard Petty, king of the stockers, won $378,865 last year) began their racing careers here. Spectators expect the local boy they applaud to become tomorrow's NASCAR hero. Says Cabarrus County Sheriffs Deputy Stowe Cobb: "We're all participants because those boys out there are our own people...
...Civilized. Concord's races attract a diverse crowd that includes one-gallus retirees, peroxide mountain mamas and lonely textile workers from the nearby Cannon Mills. A crude spectator pecking order exists among fans. Families that applaud Chevrolets won't socialize with friends of the Dodge boys. Mechanic Howard Sussman buys a $4 ticket just to see the power slides. Says he: "My wife can't understand how I can fix cars all week and then spend the weekend watching them race...
...puns (he claimed that Candidate Jimmy Carter's appearance at a Nader gathering meant that Carter was trying "to pass himself off as one of the Nader-day saints"). Now the lean, intense folk hero is coming under fire from a few of his former admirers-liberals who applaud his service to a noble cause but deplore the way the myth is altering...