Word: commend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard-working young Chekist he had his ups & downs, never amounted to much until he wrote a book. It was not about police work as understood in Western countries. But for Communist police work it was just the thing to commend him to his superiors. It was called On the History of the Bolshevik Organization in Trans-Caucasia. Largely through fictitious evidence it disputed Leon Trotsky's charge that Stalin never amounted to much as a pre-revolutionary theorist. Beria's Stalin is always right, always on the Leninist beam, always out in front of "the toiling masses...
...Clark Lee, made in his new book, the Army doctor asked who had moved Tojo . . . causing blood to gush from his wounds [TIME, June 16]. The Army doctor mentioned in this article asked no such question. Blood had not gushed from Tojo's wound. Neither did that doctor commend the gentlemen of the press for moving Tojo, nor did he make such an erroneous statement as, "If that blood hadn't drained out, it would have filled his lungs and drowned him." Nothing could have been further from the truth if it had happened. . . . I know these things...
Please let me commend TIME for the fairness and accuracy of its reporting of the Greenville lynching case and trial [TIME, June 2 et ante...
...Goldwyn managed, as usual, to get foot in mouth once: taking pains to commend Hoagy Carmichael, he referred to the singer-composer as "Hugo...
...letter to Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48, Committee Chairman, LaGuardia stated, "I heartily endorse the Harvard Food Relief drive. I commend it to every thinking and peace-loving American. There is so much hardship and poverty in this world of ours and help so much needed that even the slightest contribution will do great good...