Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jews in high places were hiding their ancestry, he made a winking reply about the need for "clarity." Mazowiecki was one of those rumored to be part Jewish. In one of the campaign's most dismal moments, the bishop of Mazowiecki's hometown of Plock felt called upon to affirm the Prime Minister's Catholic ancestry all the way back to the 15th century...
...each of these situations, he takes responsibility for being sure that you actually do want to do the things that he thinks you want to do. Because he asks, you have the opportunity not just to say "no" if you choose, but to actually say "yes"--to affirm your interest in seeing the movie or going to the party...
Although hastening to affirm that they do not agree with many of CLUH's viewpoints, members of other campus conservative organizations said yesterday that they appreciated the civil liberty group's joining forces with them to fight censorship at Harvard...
...hanging of a Confederate flag in the window of the Leverett Towers constitutes a legitimate--and insensitive--exercise of free speech. Accordingly, the Harvard community has a dual responsibilty: first, to affirm the right of the student to display the flag and second, to register enough thoughtful disapproval to persuade the person to remove...
Although Cole may not epitomize the clothing-conscious Romance Languages stereotype, he is quick to affirm its accuracy. He, like others, attributes the fashion phenomenon to the department's overwhelming European influences...