Word: affirmatively
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...refused either to affirm or deny another rumor which had the committee offering an interim appointment to Josh Williams, currently the Crimson back-field coach. Williams was unavailable for comment last night. According to the Boston press, Williams, who is known to have the endorsement of the vast majority of the present football squad, had turned down an interim appointment, preferring instead a more permanent situation...
...eyes of many authoritative observers, the committee's actions last night tried to circumvent the legal attacks. Over Shaplin's objections, the committee voted to demand that Tobin give his recommendations and the qualifications of the appointees. The board then voted to "ratify and affirm" the appointments of the men whose qualifications Tobin had given...
Change Comes Hard From the deep fissions and hard fusions of the South, where no leading public figure had yet dared affirm the validity of the Supreme Court's desegregation decrees, Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins last week sounded a clear call for reason and conciliation. Said he at ceremonies marking his reinauguration: "It will do us no good whatever to defy the U.S. Supreme Court ... Its decisions are the law of the land. And this nation's strength and Florida's strength are bottomed on the premise that ours is a land...
...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...