Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during their second or even third repeat than during their first year in a grade. Under the new New York City policy, says School Chancellor Irving Anker, pupils who are "left back" will be given "individually prescribed programs" based on their deficiencies and needs. Skeptical New York City teachers applaud his intentions, but many doubt that the money, classroom space and skilled teachers are available to give slow readers the attention they so desperately need...
...fans had arrived one hour before game-time to hang a Crimson skater in effigy and to applaud their team as the players did pushups and situps on the ice during the pre-game warmup...
...survey last week. They found differences from one region to the next; New England was most ready to see Nixon resign or be impeached, the South most willing to forgive his flawed stewardship or even defend him as the victim of his critics. Everywhere there were Americans who still applaud his achievements in foreign policy, and particularly in finally ending the Viet Nam War. But the dominant mood was a growing sense of dismay, disenchantment, despair, and a willingness to recognize if not approve that the President may sooner or later have to step down...
...applaud Agnew for haying the courage to resign. It is too bad Nixon won't do the same and make it a majority. We need more people like ... what's his name...
...Truffaut, returns from the bright present to black and white boyhood. He repeatedly tries to steal a set of advertising stills of Citizen Kane through the barred front of a theater lobby, and finally grasping his prize, turns and runs off into the night. It is a scene you applaud...