Word: applauds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French banking. "The system is basically an old-boy net," he says, "and it overlooks dozens of qualified men who drop out because they do not feel involved in what they are doing." Saint-Geours himself has been helped along by the old-boy net, yet he would heartily applaud its demise. Says he: "There is no one at my level in the conservative business of banking who is further to the left than...
...much American naval and air power is concentrated in a far corner of the Pacific, leaving other areas weakened. The handful of remaining hawks who want to bomb Hanoi into dust pose no political threat to the President. And the Democrats who oppose his re-election could only applaud a lowering of U.S. sights in Viet Nam; it is what they advocate...
...persistent myths about actors is that they are egomaniacs. Not so. They're insecure souls who thirst for the love and reassurance of audiences who applaud with whatever wild abandon the human palm will permit...
...Although not a traditional supporter of President Nixon and his policies, I applaud his timely acceptance of the changing conditions in the world today. The President's public recognition of the ever-present power and influence of Red China evidences the political and diplomatic perception essential to our nation's future security. If pragmatism is indeed to be the byword for U.S. policy, then all the better for the American people...
...modern communications that help people view the world more realistically, all can account in part for the wide acceptance of -or at least resignation to-the age's swift reversals of governmental policy. Yet there may be a further explanation for the readiness of most Americans to applaud Nixon's outreach to the Orient. However passionate they may feel about a friend or foe at one moment, Americans as a people find it hard to carry a grudge for long. They are quick to forgive and forget a past wrong. Says Author-Historian Barbara Tuchman: "Americans want...