Word: commendation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over a century, wrote Emigre Fabian, whenever Hungarians mourned their martyrs, the orators "never omitted to commend the British people for their sympathetic attitude . . . Now I read in the newspapers that Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khrushchev plan to visit England in April 1956 . . . For many hundred years the oppressed nations of Europe have regarded England as the champion of freedom and as the adversary of tyranny. It would therefore come as a great shock to Great Britain's faithful friends and admirers if Bulganin and Khrushchev were to be received with flowers and ovations...
...Tool Association whom we are briefing on Friday. What are some of their problems?") By the time he has to speak, he knows that the group comprises 29 manufacturers from eight countries, is highly interested in developing and adapting standardized equipment for NATO needs, and that he can warmly commend them on their interest. With such a preface, he swings into his discussion of the structure and importance of NATO, reeling off statistics without recourse to notes as usual, ends by moving out to the front steps for a group picture...
Baptists everywhere, I'm sure, agree with the pastors of our city's 44 Baptist churches when they recently voted to commend you highly for your excellent coverage...
...picture has the resources of the state at his command. At no point, however, does the cardinal seem to get any help from the spiritual realm-indeed, there is little evidence that he seriously asks for God's help, or tries with any genuine religious understanding to commend his spirit into God's hands. He just goes it alone like a self-sufficient 19th century liberal, or at best like a sort of Kafka in scarlet-both of which are improbable states of soul in a dedicated clergyman of any faith...
...commend TIME on its story about our friendly competitor, Louis Marx. You intimate that Marx "knocked off" our best-selling Robert the Robot by meeting our price and adding a battery motor. In order to meet our $6 price, Marx eliminated from his robot the phonograph recording which permits our Robert to talk. It says, "I'm Robert the Robot, the mechanical man. Drive me and steer me wherever...