Word: commend
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...Percy's claim to a perspective that "can commend itself ... more by reason of its ignorance than its knowledge" is more than an attack on the scientists' narrow focus; it questions the fitness of an analytical, scientific method to the task of comprehending language. Not quite a full-fledged mystic, Percy nevertheless doubts not only the possibility, but also the ultimate worth of understanding. On the one hand he glories in the achievement, unique to the human race, of making the associative leap from the group of sounds in balloon to the real balloon; yet at the same time...
Until historians ascertain what additional facts and alternatives, if any, were available to President Ford, they cannot complete their evaluation of the Mayaguez crisis other than to commend the courage of our armed forces. But clearly, they will not compare this incident to the Cuban missile crisis-a potential nuclear confrontation between two superpowers that was ultimately resolved through delicate negotiations without the U.S. firing a single shot or losing more than a single man. J.F.K., unlike Ford, supported by every nation in the affected area and acting with caution and candor, avoided a direct clash, utilized...
...Times reporter nodded as two Princeton seniors told him proudly that applications to the eating clubs had gone up steadily over the past two years. A member of the Princeton class of '71 joined the conversation to commend the "new breed" of students--not like the grubby, noisy activists of his day, he noted. "I think it's good thing that students are turning back to study and to introspection, that they're thinking about things again," he declared, as the crowd pressed eagerly around the gambling tables, apparently thinking very intently about what number would come up next...
Leaders and Followers Sir / Your recent examination of leadership [July 15] was in itself an example of leadership at a time when many Americans have begun to wonder if any institutions-and those who are responsible for the leadership of them-can survive this decade. I commend TIME for drawing attention to excellence and achievement...
...Solzhenitsyn's arrest seems to have been inevitable to many people throughout the world, a fact that makes it no less outrageous. It is a sad day indeed for man's ever-increasing struggle for truth. I commend the news media of this country for their coverage of Solzhenitsyn. This man must not be lost to history...