Word: commend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still but never small voice of an 18th-Century poet can possibly be heard above all this atomic bombast, may I commend to the attention of your readers and the "bomb committee" the following excerpt from Pope's Essay...
...entirely possible that Edward Kennedy betrayed some sort of an international agreement, but I find that I have to commend him for at least one thing-he reported the news while it was still news. ... I do condemn whatever powers there are that force him to use such tactics to get the news to the people...
Please permit me to commend your current issue of TIME, especially the space and fairness with which you dealt with the life, accomplishments and death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. For more than eight years it has been my privilege and honor to be Rector of "The President's Church" in Washington (St. Thomas'), where I have come to know him and to appreciate his sterling qualities as a man with a genius for friendship, a charm of personality, ideals of true democracy, world vision, an underlying religious spirit and a surprising knowledge of the Bible. . . . HOWARD S. WILKINSON...
That night, from Hyde Park, he closed his campaign with a prayer written for him by the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C. "Almighty God ... we commend to Thy overruling Providence the men and women of our forces. ... Be Thou their strength. . . . Guide . . . the nations of the world into the way of justice and truth and establish among them that peace which is the reward of righteousness. . . . Make the whole people of this land equal to our high trust, reverent in the use of freedom, just in the exercise of power, generous in the protection of weakness...
...Almighty God . . . we commend to Thy care all engaged in the great invasion, that being armed with Thy defense, they may be preserved in all perils, and do their duty in honor and glory...