Word: applauding
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...applaud the President's high purpose and sympathize with his anger, but I deplore his mentioning in a news conference the names of the four suspects in the Alabama murder of Mrs. Liuzzo [April 2]. The right of the accused to their own day in court, represented by counsel, is at least as important as the right to assemble and petition or the right to vote. Legal guilt must be proved in a courtroom, not announced from a speaker's platform...
...first voters began to line up in front of the city's polling stations. A few hours later, when President Joseph Kasavubu was due to cast his ballot, observers from eleven African nations were on hand to applaud, television crews had set up their cameras, and journalists from all over the world were scurrying from precinct to precinct to record the phenomenon of an orderly Congo. The whole thing seemed almost too good to be true...
Political leaders of the U.S.S.R. appeared on TV applauding the flight. But there was none of the gay banter of one of Nikita Khrushchev's conversations with orbiting cosmonauts. Party Chief Leonid I. Brezhnev picked up a white telephone and did his leaden best. "We applaud you," he said to the Voskhod II. "We await you in Moscow." Congratulatory messages arrived from all over the world. The Pope and President Johnson both offered applause...
...after World War II, quit after two years ("I wasn't making any money"), and went back to telling duffers the difference between a mashie and a niblick. To keep himself amused, he tried "a little hocuspocus" on the practice tee, and club members started showing up to applaud such antics as hitting two balls simultaneously, one with a hook, the other with a slice. Aha! thought Hahn, and hit the road as a trick-shot artist. In the 15 years since, Hahn has visited 37 countries, traveled 1,500,000 miles. Today, his income from exhibitions, movies...
...Even more unacceptable was De Gaulle's proposed remedy, which would bring Communist China into negotiations for the revision of an organization from which it has been repeatedly blackballed. Furthermore, few of the organization's 108 smaller powers, whose main voice is the General Assembly, would likely applaud any move by the Big Five to dictate changes in the U.N. structure...