Word: commendable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...that nature no longer suffices to supply our needs." Tertullian's view that "pestilence, famine, war and earthquakes must be regarded as a remedy for this condition, a pruning, as it were, of the too fruitful human race" was a commonplace in the ancient world, but will hardly commend itself, morally or scientifically, to population experts today...
...probably have little to say about foreign affairs in his senatorial campaign, but much to say about the farm program; he wants a minimum farm income to match labor's minimum wage. This is a formula that can do him no harm in the Senate race, and might commend him to Massachusetts' Kennedy, a big-city, East Coast boy who could use help in unfamiliar agricultural territory...