Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support and applaud the nomination of Academician Andrei Sakharov for the Nobel Prize for Peace, as proposed by my friend Alexander Solzhenitsyn [Sept...
...Force, found out. After Fitzgerald disclosed to a subcommittee of the Joint Economic Committee in November 1968 that cost overruns on the giant C-5A cargo plane added up to a phenomenal $2 billion, his days at the Pentagon were numbered. His Air Force superiors, Fitzgerald claims, did not applaud his frankness before Congress. He was cut off from cost information about major weapons systems, an investigation of his private life was initiated, laudatory comments were excised from his record before it was turned over to Congress, and finally in January 1970 his position as Deputy for Management Systems...
...that St. Laurent, Marc Bohan and others insisted on prolonging the scene in some of their models all the way down to mid-calf level. Ungaro even dipped to just-above-ankle, granny-style length for streetwear, to be worn over high-heeled boots. Still, there was much to applaud (if not to afford): daytime sportswear that emphasized soft, easy cardigan suits and jackets; fox-trimmed jackets and sweaters to go with classic sporty pleated skirts and big tentlike shelter coats. Gimmickry was no one's gimmick: even flights of fancy-veiled hats, ostrich-feather trims and dyed gold...
Monday's Box Jox-Radcliffe tennis match is a milestone in the brief history of the merger non-merger of Harvard and Radcliffe, and we applaud the Administration's gesture of recognition of its Radcliffe constituents. For far too long the 'Cliffe has been overlooked in the Mass Hall scene of things. We applaud this match as a move in the right direction...
...Israeli hawks. Israeli and American Jews have to answer a simple question: Does a Palestinian born in Haifa have the right to live in Haifa at least as much as a Jew born in Moscow? Until that right is granted, there will be violence. And those of us who applaud resistances in 1776, in Nazi-occupied Europe, in Algeria and Vietnam, are in no position to reject Palestinian resistance--unless we support a non-violent alternative for the Palestinians, namely, effective pressure on Israel by America...