Word: commend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then commend your soul to God, cry Viva Espana and die like a patriot...
...conversation, peace was declared. Johnson issued a formal statement which put Congressmen and federal officials on their honor to use military aircraft only for trips in the "national interest." Definition of national interest was largely left to the conscience of the officeholder and his boss. Cooed Elmer Thomas: "I commend Secretary Johnson for his decision...
...should like to commend TIME for its fair and accurate account of the conviction of my husband, Larry Gara, for "counseling, aiding and abetting" non-registration for the draft...
Back in his old job on the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, ex-Prosecutor Jackson could scarcely fail to see that such a trial would not "commend itself to posterity." Last week, in response to an appeal by some of the convicted Japanese, Jackson broke a 4-10-4 deadlock among his fellow justices and voted that the Supreme Court of the U.S. hear argument on whether to review the legality of the Tokyo tribunal. Jackson's opinion argued on both sides of the 440-4 deadlock.'Tor this court now to call up these cases for judicial...
...questioned. Some hard-to-please movie critics have suggested that the picture might be harmful to the young and to the emotionally unstable, and that it should therefore be shown only to limited audiences. Psychiatrists, who have deplored most Hollywood explorations (and vulgarizations) of their specialty, disagree; they commend The Snake Pit in terms which studio pressagents could not improve on. It has even been seriously suggested that the picture be shown to borderline cases and patients. Said one Manhattan psychiatrist: "It would give them a feeling of hope for their own recovery...