Word: commendable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view has, of course, many supporters, most notably those of the newly emergent left who foresee a period of right wing oppression and excess, followed by the triumph of a new ideology. This will seem absurd to anyone who has never visited East Berlin. The more sanguine view will commend itself to those who would like to think it so, and this, as I say, is largely a matter of taste and condition. Such would include, almost without exception, the condition of anyone who in this day is a member of Americans for Democratic Action. If there are exceptions...
...swift temper; he is used to dealing with a high-powered, swift-moving, technically-oriented bureaucracy. Working easily with persistent, often stubborn, occasionally inarticulate people has never been one of his strong points. Snide and inflexible when things aren't going his way, Logue lacks the diplomacy that would commend him to the sensitive office of Mayor...
...commend you for your generally fair and objective reporting on the conflict at Berkeley...
...peccadilloes, few of his critics deny that Powell on the whole has been an effective if erratic committee chairman. Only last March President Johnson wrote him to commend a "brilliant record of accomplishment" that has included passage of 56 key bills for the New Frontier and the Great Society...
...commend you for bringing South Africa's apartheid policies before your readers; those policies are a matter of grave international concern. My Subcommittee on Africa has been holding hearings on United States-South African Relations since March. While we heard considerable testimony from a score of expert witnesses, and extended an invitation to American businessmen and financiers, none of the latter seemed to think it advisable to testify, which I regret...