Word: commend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professional fighters they could afford to regard the enemy's effort with an appraising eye, to commend him for some military virtuosity that the world did not realize he possessed. They could afford it because they had given him a thumping good round. They had made an impressive start on the proof of a proposition that many strategists had believed insoluble: the Philippines can be held...
...want to thank you sincerely for having then published that interview although it ran contrary to common opinion as to where we, the Russians, stand in the great struggle of our time. And I especially want to commend the courage of your reporter who interviewed me and then wrote the article so well...
Excerpt from the "wisdom" prayer: "O Lord our Governor, whose glory is in all the world; We commend this nation to thy merciful care, that being guided by thy Providence, we may dwell secure in thy peace. Grant to THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and to all in authority, wisdom and strength to know and to do thy will...
...Boston Globs of yesterday appeared the following news item: A group of 50 students and alumni gathered in Emerson Hall Harvard Yard yesterday afternoon protest the award of an honorary degree tomorrow at the Harvard Commend cement to Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States. The meeting was sponsored by Profession Frederick Merk, Francis O, Matthiessen, and Wendell, Furry of the Harvard Faculty, and Raymond Dennett graduate secretary of P.B.H...
...consistent reader of TIME who firmly believes and adheres to democratic principles, I wish to commend your magazine for its impartial point of view in discussing controversial issues involving social, political, and economic questions...