Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe leaving the steel strike to stew in its own juice, had agreed that the public feeling toward both parties to the dispute could be summed up in one Shakespearean phrase, "A plague o' both your houses." Was this double-damnation his own feeling? The President declined to affirm or deny. It was what he thought the public thought. Since good politicians model their opinions after the public's, it was fair to deduce that Franklin Roosevelt was at least beginning to wish a plague on ''both houses...
...clincher which proves that Germany admitted "war guilt" in signing the Treaty of Versailles is that 18 years afterward Adolf Hitler found it necessary to repudiate officially this German admission by renouncing Article 231, Section I, Part VIII of the Treaty which reads: "The Allied and Associated Governments affirm, and Germany accepts, the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies...
...something newer, different, a bewilderment that affected the art world of Europe for a few shell-shocked years during and immediately after the War. The object of dadaism was a conscious attack on reason, a complete negation of everything, the loudest and silliest expression of post-War cynicism. "I affirm," wrote early Dadaist Hans Arp, "that Tristan Tzara discovered the word dada on the 8th of February, 1916, at 6 o'clock in the evening ... in the Terrace Cafe in Zurich. I was there with my twelve children when Tzara pronounced for the first time this word, which aroused...
...were suspended from A. F. of L. by its Executive Council last summer (TIME, Aug. 17). Since then the future course of the U. S. labor movement has hung in a suspense which was expected to be resolved at Tampa. Instead the convention delegates voted to: 1) affirm the Executive Council's suspension order; 2) direct the Executive Council to continue efforts at reconciliation; 3) empower the Executive Council to summon a special convention of the Federation if they should finally feel driven to adopt some "drastic procedure." This temporizing simply meant that the old leaders of Labor, adepts...
...this Anglo-Belgian occasion," cried Mr. Eden, "once again affirm that the independence and integrity of Belgium is a vital consideration for this nation, and that Belgium could count upon our help were she ever the victim of unprovoked aggression...