Word: affirmatively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...master of Eliot House urged the Faculty to affirm its commitment to compulsory gen ad, even if it simultaneously rejected the Doty Report. Under such circumstances, he reasoned, a revised version of the present Gen Ed Committee could devise a new program in consultation with the Committee on Educational Policy...
...brilliant interpreter of great events from the British army's last great cavalry charge at Omdurman in 1898 to the final defeat of the Axis powers in 1945. And for all his political pragmatism, Churchill never hesitated to point to the underlying moral of events or to affirm that, by and large, the Allied cause was that of civilization itself. As he said in the hour of victory: "We gave thanks to God for the noblest of all His blessings, the sense that we had done our duty." The Voice. It seems a distant victory now, with yesterday...
Ledger-Demain. With an eye to foreign trade, Callaghan took care to affirm that the 15% import duties announced last month were only temporary, to be lifted when and if Britain's balance-of-payment problems are eased. All told, it was a fairly effective act of ledger-demain; the gas-tax increase was passed by a ten-vote margin, the income tax by 26. The budget's impact is decidedly deflationary, since it will take nearly $600 million in purchasing power out of the economy. Some experts believe that this is just what is needed right...
...should affirm," said Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger of Montreal, "that the intimate union of the marriage partners finds its end in love as well as procreation. May this Council clearly proclaim the two ends as equally good and holy." Belgium's Leo Josef Cardinal Suenens said that the church has for too long based its marital teaching on the Biblical injunction "Increase and multiply," while ignoring an equally important Scriptural imperative: "They shall be two in one flesh." Suenens proposed that the Council commission responsible for Schema 13 ("The Church in the Modern World") should work with...
Predicting that the Supreme Court will affirm the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Rep. William M. McCulloch (R-Ohio), ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, said last night "any conscientious person who loves liberty must be a supporter" of this legislation...