Word: extollment
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With less than two weeks to go, 65 different parties are promising the voters everything from a Hohenzollern restoration to a holy war against Russia. Fifteen million posters and 60 million leaflets extol the panaceas of Nazis and Nihilists, Regionalists and Royalists, Capitalists and Socialists. Catholics and Communists. It did not help at all that two groups, with separate slates, presented themselves to the voters as one and the same party: the German Reich Party...
...before eight will be turned away. And that is as it should be. Yeats wanted his plays performed before a small group for good reason. They are delicate weldings of poetry, music, and dance--all in a mystical world existing only in the minds of romantic men. The plays extol the hero Cuchalain and with him all brave deeds and fearless men. They reject the objective intellect--the only intelligence that exists for them is that of cunning or wise counsel in the art of war. The mind alone, the scholar, the academician, even the satirist is not mocked...
...first days, the Republican 83rd will receive a series of messages from President Harry Truman. His remarks on the way out are expected to extol the Democratic record, challenge the Republicans to do what he wants-and produce little, if any, result. The Congress will be waiting for another series of messages: the program Dwight Eisenhower will outline after he is inaugurated...
Author Clune doesn't exactly extol these bandits, but there is a glow of something like patriotic pride in his prose when he sums up: "Within the limits of their equipment and opportunity . . . there is one claim which can be made for the Australian bushrangers, without fear of contradiction on the facts. Australia's Wild West period was as wild as. if not wilder than, the corresponding frontier phase in the United States of America...
ANNA LOUISE STRONG, who, although expelled from the Soviet Union (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949), continues to extol the Chinese Communist "People's Democracy...