Word: commend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after the Malaya put in, Frank Knox issued a statement: "I wish to commend the action of the press associations, newspapers, broadcasting companies and photographic agencies who have cooperated. . . . It is true that many people can see these ships as they arrive. ... It is also true that enemy agents can report these movements; but it seems to me only sportsmanlike that the keen American press refrain from giving a report of these ships for it the benefit of press's Britain's enemies. ...." As it was, the press's self-censorship merely concealed from the U.S. public...
...words: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." "This day shall thou be with Me in Paradise." "Behold Thy Mother. Behold Thy Son." "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" "I thirst." "It is finished." "Father, into Thy hands I commend My Spirit...
...argued: "The air-raid wardens and police will take cover during air raids and their steel helmets will not be needed anyway. So how can I be accused of treason or sabotage? By using iron, I was actually saving steel for other armaments. The Egyptian State really ought to commend my patriotic...
...Jack, the Ambassadors, the Supreme Court Justices, the generals, the Cabinet officers, the wreaths of chrysanthemums from President Roosevelt, of laurel and palm from King George VI. In the middle of the service there was a special prayer: "Most merciful and compassionate God and Father of all men, we commend to Thy loving care and protection the people of Great Britain. In this hour of their need do Thou strengthen and sustain them. Guard and save them from the violence of their enemies...
Strategically, it freed six or seven British cruisers from the Mediterranean theatre for convoy work on the high Atlantic, perhaps even for Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham's new commend in the Far East...