Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demure three fingers) and murmuring pleasantries to all. As Queen of Jamaica, she also addressed Parliament. The speech, composed by Foreign Office gnomes, was hardly great oratory, but it was met with an awkward silence only be cause the assembled Members thought it might be bad form to applaud...
...must applaud the restraint of Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone [Jan. 24] in not saying, "If Americans made cars, TVs and calculators more attractive to the consumer than ours, the U.S. would not have a trade problem...
...statement that resisters should see the new law as somehow "sharpening" the moral issues, and therefore not protest, is absurd. Civil rights activists in the South did not applaud when a government instituted some new racist measure on top of those already in force. Neither will non-registrants see this law as anything other than further evidence of the Reagan Administration's militarism, to be abhorred no less than the call to registration itself...
Though a Lutheran seminarian, I applaud the Catholic bishops for challenging U.S. nuclear policy. It is time that religion and ethics were brought back into public discourse...
...applaud Elizabeth Taylor's legal suit against ABC'S proposed docudrama of her life [Nov. 8]. When I watch these TV hybrids, I am so concerned with sorting fact from fiction that I can't enjoy the show...