Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...UNDERSIGNED MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, ENDORSE THE RECENT DECISIONS OF THE REGENTS [in firing President Philip Wernette -TIME, Feb. 16]. WE AFFIRM FULL CONFIDENCE IN THE PRESIDENT-ELECT [Tom Popejoy]. WE EXPRESS COMPLETE ASSURANCE THAT HIGH ACADEMIC STANDARDS WILL BE MAINTAINED UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP...
...bank and stand in line for a magazine application subscription form of some 100-odd questions, in sextuplicate. Having filled it out, he then had to take it to the exchange control authorities who might take from a week to six months to affirm or deny it. If his request were granted, he again had to go to his bank for a dollar draft to send to us. To overcome this delay, 23 banks and offices throughout the world are presently acting as clearing houses for us, accepting subscribers' checks in their local currency and transmitting the amounts...
...wholesome reminder that "peace is yet to be secured." In a pungent passage (which might be applied critically to the U.S. hands-off policy in China) he deplored the spectator attitude of many Americans. He quoted Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Man is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to affirm the worth of an end is to create an ideal." And Marshall added: "So I say to you as earnestly as I can that the attitude of the spectator is the culminating frustration of man's nature...
...caused the Soviet Minister's heart to miss a beat. Said the King (of Sweden's membership in the United Nations): "We have recently joined the United States. It is the fervent wish of our entire people that this new union will successfully complete its mission to affirm international collaboration and to assure peace...
From the Cahiers du Communisme, official monthly review of the best that has been thought and said by French Communists: "Communists affirm the right of self-determination for every nation or colonial people. But this does not mean that they are everywhere and always in favor of separation. The question of recognition of the right to separate should not be confused with the usefulness of separation . . . just as the right to divorce does not signify the obligation to divorce...