Word: commending
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commend Yale athletic director Tom Beckett for his ambition in scheduling his team for a road game at powerhouse Connecticut. Of course, the Elis (3-4) had no business stepping on the court with the nation's No. 8 team, and it showed, as the Huskies cruised to a 93-66 victory Friday...
SPEAKING AS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN, I must commend Farrakhan on his Million Man March. Like many blacks, I did not agree with the messenger, but I had to agree with the message. I pray that all people heard the call to stop the violence and senseless killing. Black Americans do not need any one person to speak out; we need only the support of those we elect, just as white people do. But this wall between the races must be eliminated before we destroy each other. HAROLD R. HOLLOWAY St. Augustine, Florida...
History, that insufferable know-it-all, has its noble brow furrowed. While noting much to commend in the way this lofty experiment has played out, it finds the U.N.'s charter conference an affair doomed by internal contradictions. Haunted by the disaster of appeasement, the framers assumed all humanity would rally behind the rescue of any country, no matter how remote the peril to any other country's vital interest. They believed each government would surrender at any time its warmaking powers to a supranational force. They provided not at all for conflicts within nations, and they considered open debate...
...great friend of the BGLSA. But I must commend BGLSA members for recognizing that the best way to fight free speech is with more free speech. While I am uncomfortable with Oppenheimer putting up 200 posters from another organization, I have to admit that his approach is far more constructive (and mature) than the usual response to AALARM posters--ripping them down...
...Dartboard wonder: was Weicker being sarcastic in describing himself as "the right man for the job"? If so, we commend him on his sense of humor...