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Word: laud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make those snap judgments that give him a jump on the play." Known for his bone-jarring tackles, he lives up to his nickname: "Earthquake." Babich is an equally deadly tackier, but with an extra shot of adrenaline. He may be the fleetest of college linebackers, and the pros laud his ability to "always be where the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TIME's All-America: The Pick of the Pros | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...style of his South Carolinian hero John C. Calhoun, ran scared, plastering Charleston with billboards and TV spots. Ten days before the primary, Rivers arranged to have 15 members of his committee flock to Charleston along with Admiral Hyman Rickover to inspect a Polaris missile facility and laud Mendel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Carolina: Mendelian Domain | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...friction between the U.S. and South Korea. After a spate of Korean protest demonstrations, editorials and official statements, the U.S. dispatched Troubleshooter Cyrus Vance to Seoul as a special presidential emissary empowered to discuss the "grave threat" from the North. In addition, Johnson went out of his way to laud "this steadfast ally" when he made his request for special military aid to South Korea. By week's end the handholding operation appeared to have been successful, and the U.S. was able to get on with the exasperating task of dealing with the other Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Still Dangling | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Friendly Enemy. Some skeptics regard Williams' civil-libertarianism as a mere tool for winning juries and influencing judges. His admirers, on the other hand, laud him as a "guardian at the gate" of constitutional rights. Whatever the truth, the result earns Williams more than $200,000 a year and involves him in such diverse roles as president of the Washington Redskins football team, adviser to the American Civil Liberties Union, and general counsel of the Teamsters Union (though he no longer acts as the personal attorney of Jimmy Hoffa). He has a lawyer wife, seven children and a handsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lawyers: The Winning Loser | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...President was not alone in lavishing praise on John McCormack. One after another, a dozen of his fellow Democrats rose on the House floor last week to laud the Speaker's virtues. "A kind man, a Christian, a gentleman," intoned Oklahoma's Carl Albert. "No human being has ever been more human," chimed in South Carolina's Mendel Rivers. "When the history of this era is written," apostrophized Louisiana's Hale Boggs, "no name will loom larger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Speaking Out on the Speaker | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

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