Word: affirmance
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...turned them into dollars for a pretty profit. With this practical experience behind her, Sylvia in 1935 persuaded the Post to hire her as a financial reporter. Three years later the Post warily gave her a column under the byline S. F. Porter, and did not let her affirm her sex until 1942, when S. F. was changed to Sylvia...
...Marshal Ivan Konev suddenly discovered that Zhukov shared the blame with Stalin for Soviet reverses early in World War II, did not deserve much credit for the Stalingrad victory, had hindered more than helped at the conquest of Berlin. All in all, Konev concluded, "it would be absurd to affirm Zhukov's alleged exceptional part in the Great Patriotic...
...reports come from members of Western diplomatic missions in Moscow. Indications were that Soviet Communist party boss Nikita Khruschev had called an urgent meeting of the party Central Committee, probably to affirm Zhukov's ouster as defense minister...
...strongly individualistic flavor." Yet, for most of these masters, their deepest bond lies in a conviction that, as Rouault put it, "anyone can revolt," and in a search for unequivocal vision whatever the individualistic idiom or temperament might be--the very quest for universality which led Picasso to stoutly affirm, "There is no abstract...
...line, singling out his closest supporters for vicious personal attacks with an intensity which made the startled and for the most part silent left call it "the black day." Then the Stalinists put their power to test; the general resolution of the plenum must be reworded, they said, to affirm the Soviet Union's "leading" position and to condemn the Hungarian "counter-revolution...