Word: extoll
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were coming unstuck. His press conference was only his fifth as President, fewer than any other President in the past 50 years. Of course, such infrequency gives the Washington press corps fewer self-important opportunities to appear on national TV as vigilant public defenders. But some among them also extol press conferences as an inspired device to require more frequent public accounting by the President. The public, caring less, may feel it sees enough of the President on the evening news, and in this belief would be wrong...
...course, having no heroes to extol does not prevent political columnists from assessing, evenhandedly or subjectively, the demerits of all the candidates. They've been manfully going about that part of their...
Puritans ruled Cambridge, as they did most of Massachusetts Bay, in the early days--Henry Dunster, president of Harvard, left his post in 1654 rather than publicly extol infant baptism, and at least one "witch" left this world from Gallows Hill north of Harvard. But like the rest of the colony, Cambridge matured quickly--by the beginning of the 18th century, a new group of wealthier and more tolerant folks, the Tories, supplanted the Mathers and their ilk. Huge houses began to sprout on Brattle St., still seen by many as the home of the haughty "Brattle St. crowd...
...search for a fail-safe society is also pursued by businessmen. Though they still extol free enterprise's virtues in after-dinner speeches, American capitalists can often be the system's most dangerous opponents. Rather than embracing the marketplace and competition, many businessmen look longingly to those societies, notably Japan, in which the government intervenes to sponsor, subsidize or otherwise ease the way for business...
...their part, the peasants treated their admirers with skepticism, often jeering at the intellectuals who came to extol their virtues, explain their plight to them and exhort them to action. The peasants were equally skeptical in their reaction to yet another set of admirers, the Bolsheviks, who set out to collectivize the country's cultivated land, most of which had been owned by the peasantry on the eve of the Revolution. Many of the peasants pictured in The Russian Empire no doubt became victims of the enforced collectivization of 1929, whose mass deportations and man-made famine cost some...