Word: commending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Metropolitan Detroit Council on Better Literature for Youth wishes to commend you and the members of your staff for the excellent factual report...
...Your article on the meeting between the Patriarch and the Pope [Jan. 17] was excellent. As an Orthodox Catholic I must commend you for the fine way you handled the controversial issues. You showed a great deal of sensitivity to the viewpoints of both the East and the West, and did not sacrifice the Orthodox viewpoint for the sake of sensationalism or emotionalism...
...action did not affect the jury's verdict against the Post, which in an article last spring had accused Butts and University of Alabama Football Coach "Bear" Bryant of conspiring to fix the 1962 Georgia-Alabama game. Indeed, the judge went out of his way to commend that verdict. "The article was clearly defamatory and extremely so," he said. "The jury was warranted in concluding from the persistent and continuing attitude of the officers and agents of the defendant that there was a wanton or reckless indifference to the plaintiff's rights." But if Butts refused to accept...
...Republican, with white skin, born in Arizona and living in Florida. Martin Luther King's smuggled comments printed in your magazine will be clipped put, framed and hung on my wall. Here is a man with deep devotion to his fellow man. I commend you for your fine choice of the Man of the Year. It is a tribute to the Almighty, who made us all, black and white, in his image...
Then he covered the President's face once more with the sheet and in English offered the prayers for the Dying and for the Departed Soul: "May the most clement Virgin Mary, Mother of God, the most loving consoler of the afflicted, commend to her Son the soul of this servant, John . . . Jesus, Mary and Joseph, assist me in my last agony. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, may I sleep and rest in peace in your holy company . . . Grant, O Lord, that while we here lament the departure of Your servant, we may ever remember that we are most certainly...