Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fewer than three-fourths of the States." Crying "We have too long remained silent," the resolution invited other states to ask Congress to call a convention that would draft a constitutional amendment to "settle the issue of contested power here asserted." Under the Virginia plan, the proposed amendment would affirm the Supreme Court's power to desegregate schools. Then, the South confidently hopes that the amendment will be defeated when fewer than the required three-quarters of the states ratify it. With twelve fairly solid Southern nays, only one more state would be needed...
...work is a masterpiece of erudition . . . but has he roamed the streets on a winter night looking for a corner to sleep in? Has he had a fist fight over a rotten Camembert? Has he had his shirt full of lice? I am only a former clochard but I affirm that 99.5% of clochards drink. The only thing for which a clochard ever stirs is red wine. Real clochards are not redeemable. They are Bohemians and will fall to pieces the minute they are subjected to discipline...
...Time. Those who see the Christian belief in the end of the world as implying an attitude of indifference to earthly values are dead wrong, according to Cullmann. But though Christianity does not deny the world, it does not affirm it. either. The complex attitude that places the Christian between the two is what Cullmann calls "chronological dualism." This is "the conviction that, on the one hand . . . Christ the end is already fulfilled, and that nonetheless the consummation is still in the future, since the framework of the present world still endures...
...Club recently declined a Navy offer of two obsolete T-28 training planes because of the excessive operating costs involved, the CRIMSON learned. Williams refused to affirm or deny the offer...
Gloomy Welcome. Then Mendes gave some advice to Eastern Europe. "At the risk of surprising our colleagues representing [the satellites]," he said, "I affirm that, for my part, I would be quite happy to see the creation of an Eastern European defense association, as long as it adopts the modalities provided for by the West for the publication, limitation and control of armaments." Eventually, suggested Mendes, arrangements between this Communist club and the new Western European Union might lead to a "system of collective security applicable to the whole of Europe...