Word: laudes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pros laud McEnroe's ability to disguise his shots and alter his style. Predicts Borg...
However, one faculty member, who wished to remain unidentified, said yesterday "I laud the Alumni Council's decision. Someone has to do something, and brown paper bag luncheons are not enough...
...effect. Despite the grumblings of the public, newspapers are widely respected, or at least read. The press is protected, more or less, by the First Amendment, which states that Congress may make no law limiting its power. Over the years, newspapers have had ample opportunity to laud their own humanitarian accomplishments. Thousands of editorials have appeared in dailies throughout the country touting the primacy of freedom of the press in a political system. The recent battery of editorials condemning the Supreme Court for its ruling that newspapers are not above the law illustrates the determination with which the press attempts...
John, Pat's son, who seems to be in his early twenties, sits quietly at the end of the table throughout the conversation, less eager to laud Harvard for its kindness and generosity. "At Eliot and Kirkland House, it's different than it is here," he says. "Over there they treat you like nothing. The kids come in and they don't even speak. They ignore you. They just point or grunt to let you know what they want," he says. The other workers seem disconcerted by this statement. "Well, it's true at some of these other Houses, students...
...comparisons, evaluations, theories, prognoses, cheers and groans, condemnation and approval. They are paraded in front of millions of eyes as both the finest specimens of their various races and cultures, and also as examples of America's most pressing domestic problems. Statistics about them are published to both laud their increasing participation in higher education and to decry their still inadequate enrollment; to both proclaim that they have surmounted educational deficiencies and that they are hopelessly incapable of competing within the highest of academic spheres. They are tested, touted, tracked, and tantalized with visions of glorious opportunity...