Word: extolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be to continue a time-honored American custom, viz., discriminating unfairly against a human being because he could not overcome the crippling effects of disease. Everyone wants to help the poor athlete, but few consider the physically handicapped, than to the athlete! I wonder if those who extol the "sentiment" of school spirit can work up some sentiment for the persons who would be hurt by athletic preference...
...Fighting Comrades! In the plaza before Hirohito's Imperial Palace a group of intransigent rightists gathered to hear frock-coated orators extol the virtues of peace and antiCommunism. In Hibiya Park next day, 5,000 Communists and fellow travelers cheered wildly when 69-year-old Ikuo Oyama proclaimed: "The atom bomb is now in the hands of the masses. It will be used for the protection of peace. Oh, fighting comrades," they sang, "sing hosannas for the Soviet. . . Peace. Peace. Protect Peace...
...boom for Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg was on. The Detroit News published an excited editorial entitled: "Vandenberg: Man of the Hour!" Some 700 Michigan Republicans gathered at the swank Detroit Athletic Club to eat squab, lay plans for raising a $950,000 campaign fund, and to extol the virtues of Van. Cried Governor Kim Sigler: "Any influence I have will be used to convince the convention . . . that he will be a sure winner...
...judge by the various commencement utterances ... Americans have only one religion: devotion to democracy. They extol its virtues, are apprehensive about the perils to which it is exposed, pour maledictions upon its foes, rededicate themselves periodically to its purposes and claim unconditioned validity for its ideals...
...Verge" of Significance. Warren could think of 14 writers (half of them poets) who, he thought, were doing "good work." Book-of-the-Month Club Judge Marquand, whose job is to find books he can extol, finds that "the older writers have said about all they can be expected to say. The younger writers have something inside themselves that's new and different . . . . They aren't trying to write like Hemingway . . . . Lately things have been picking up . . . . Our literature is just on the verge of getting significant." He singled out as the best of the young writers Jean...