Word: affirmatively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the O.A.S. convenes it will find itself midway on the big stick's swing, and forced to take Mr. Kennedy's word for the extent of the build-up and the degree of Soviet control. The government offered no substantive points of negotiation whose rejection would affirm the C.I.A.'s conclusion that Cuba no longer retains diplomatic autonomy vis-a-vis her military establishment...
Section 1001 (f) of the NDEA Act provides that to be eligible for grants, or for loans administered through their university, applicants must first disclaim membership in, belief in, or support of subversive organizations; and second, affirm their allegiance to the United States and its Constitutional system...
Instead, they proposed that European states give up a measure of national sovereignty to achieve a closer union, and concluded: "We affirm our conviction that only a United Europe, partner on the basis of equality with the U.S., will preserve the future of our liberties and peace." The signers of the manifesto represented enough votes to bring a motion of censure against De Gaulle's government, but they hesitated to embarrass De Gaulle on the eve of what may be the ultimate Algerian showdown. They also dreaded pushing him into ordering a popular referendum on the European issue when...
...Jersey had exceeded its judicial authority in barring Dr. John Hick from membership in the Presbytery of New Brunswick. A professor of Christian philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary, Hick was voted into membership of the presbytery last year; the synod rejected the election action because Hick had refused to affirm his belief in the virgin birth of Christ. The assembly decided that the synod had erred procedurely in questioning a presbytery's right to choose its own members...
...address a crowd of some 90,000 in the football stadium of the University of California in Berkeley, the President mused on the hopes and problems of the world's newer nations. "As new nations emerge from the oblivion of centuries," he said, "their first aspiration is to affirm their national identity. Their deepest hope is for a world where, within a framework of international cooperation, every country can solve its own problems according to its own traditions and ideals." In perhaps his most optimistic assessment of world affairs since taking office, Kennedy expressed confidence that these nations will...