Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violencia that eventually claimed 200,000 lives. Graft and jack-booted brutality characterized his regime. One memorable day in 1956, when Rojas' banner was raised in the Bogota bullring, squads of plainclothes police with knives and billy clubs closed in on spectators who failed to applaud. After a wave of popular revulsion, a junta sent the general into exile...
...proponents of the Harvard system applaud its personal approach and the accessibility of its advising personnel. But Harvard freshmen, partied and befriended all year ("He was a great guy, even if he didn't know very much," said a student about his proctor), are left alone at critical moments. As one secretary in Fay House put it. "Harvard prides itself on its personal approach, but at concentration time, it's Haravrd that simply posts notices and expects freshmen to see them, and Radcliffe that sends each girl her own packet of information...
...more sentimental souls, the eclipse provided another chance to applaud the victory of an underdog. Now bearing human footprints, the moon has assumed a new kinship with mankind. And once again, that tiny body whose feeble reflective light is daily obscured by the overpowering brilliance of sun had succeeded in blotting out, however temporarily, the dominant light source in man's special locus within the universe...
...recent portraits comes from two Pravda journalists, Washington-based Boris Strelnikov and his editorial colleague from Moscow. Igor Shatunovsky, who traveled coast to coast on a six-week automobile tour of the U.S. In an eleven-part series under the title "America on the Right and the Left," they applaud American hospitality, motels, suburbia, telephone orders at drive-in restaurants and skyscraper construction ("The building rises by the minute, not by the day or week"). There are touches of naivete: they believe, for example, that drive-in banks are conveniences only for businessmen. There's also plain misinformation...
...that decision has paid off. The fedayeen have recruited some young Israeli Arabs, and there have been numerous acts of sabotage. But the government has arrested 200 suspected of terrorism or aiding terrorists and believes the threat has been contained. Though many of Israel's Arabs applaud the fedayeen spirit, they fear that terrorist tactics will bring back the old controls. "Our situation is that of a lamb between two wolves-the Israeli military and the Arab guerrillas," says Abdul Aziz Zuabi, an Arab member of Israel's Knesset (parliament...