Word: applauding
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...with the natural poetic authority that many Rastafarians are known for," Kwame Dawes wrote in his study Bob Marley: Poetic Genius. Marley told a Jamaican magazine in 1978, "Well, is the people of Jamaica really make me what I am. Is them say 'go Bob'....I sing, the people applaud. Them people down here is the greatest people in the world. Is them build...
...rock star and activist is to loudly applaud when politicians get it right and to make their lives a misery when they do not." BONO, lead singer of U2, urging political and business leaders to do more to fight poverty in Africa, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
...Harvard student life is, ultimately, the province of students. The Crimson and those students who are concerned about campus social life should applaud the administration’s considerable efforts this year to focus on encouraging students to broaden social activities—specifically including the posting for next year’s Campus Life Fellowship...
SWORN IN. CHRISTINE GREGOIRE, 57, Democrat; as Governor of Washington; after an agonizingly close contest in which her opponent, Republican Dino Rossi, won the initial vote and a subsequent machine recount, only to lose to Gregoire by 129 votes in a hand recount; in Olympia. Irate Republicans refused to applaud at the ceremony, and Rossi has launched a court challenge, seeking a new election...
...farfetched as it might seem. While University President Lawrence H. Summers and other key administrators have made their opposition to the passage of the termbill fee well-known, they have hinted that there may be an alternative way to fund the use of wind power. We applaud the signs of imminent action and are open to any new proposals the administration may present. This is especially true if, as has been suggested, they end up transferring more energy use to wind power than the termbill proposal would...