Word: commend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...punctuality, for we have aeons of time before us. So if a thing cannot be done today or tomorrow, it can be done in the next life. Hence our belief that if you are there before it is over, you are on time. For a change, I would commend to the Americans the healthy art of keeping up with yesterday...
...Robert Drinan (D-Mass.) addressed the crowd which had gathered near VVAW's display van at the edge of the Plaza. "I commend, I admire and I endorse the VVAW," he said...
...would like to commend your reporter for his summary, in the issue of March 27, of my article on genetic intervention. One point, however, seems worth correcting, since a Polyannish attitude clearly would undermine the credibility of my effort to develop a realistic appraisal of our prospects. I did not argue that "by the time it is possible to change human personality by changing genes, society will have developed methods of preventing abuse of science." On the contrary, I am deeply pessimistic about our tolerance for self-destruction and our limited capacity for focussing on long-range consequences...
...this spirit we associate ourselves with a "declaration on free speech" drafted by a group of undergraduates and tutors. This declaration is now being circulated, and we commend it to our colleagues for their endorsement and support...
...Taylor, "millions are alive today who would otherwise be dead." To the notion that such palliatives be junked on the grounds that if war were even worse men might be more inclined to abolish it, Taylor replies simply: "These are counsels of desperation with little logic or experience to commend them...