Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fuck you," our spokesperson announces. The delivery van shuts its doors. We all mutter our approval. We're too cold to applaud...
...said their energy made the performance morememorable, although during the cadence, theaudience broke into his solo to applaud. Theythought the song had ended...
Feel free to applaud at any time...
...applaud Judge Wright for finally calling the president to task for his misdeeds. Her finding-a civil, not a criminal, ruling-is a sanction appropriate to the president's offense. There is no doubt that the president lied during his deposition. But, given that the questionably motivated lawsuit was dismissed, it is reasonable that Judge Wright opted for the less-serious civil contempt citation...
...century has also turned science into the principal agent of technology. When James Watt built the first steam engines 200 years ago, he had intuition but not the laws of thermodynamics to guide him. We do not sufficiently applaud our century's discovery that science can be useful--or the degree to which science has come to depend on technology for its new instruments: powerful telescopes, atom smashers, computers...