Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both before and after his 470,000-vote win over Democrat Richardson Dilworth for Governor of Pennsylvania, Republican William Scranton denied that he had any national ambitions for '64. Yet such is the contradictory language of politics that the more one denies, the more one is thought to affirm. In that sense, Scranton last week seemed to some to be heading hell-bent...
Stevenson, with his great prestige and abilities, is the ideal representative to the United Nations. Yet Kennedy has made only lukewarm efforts to affirm his support of Stevenson. Salinger's press statement was weak, the President's letter to Stevenson was unconvincing and Kennedy showed little warmth towards Stevenson at the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation dinner. The President lost another chance to clarify his position on Stevenson at his press conference yesterday afternoon. If he does not act soon, Stevenson's reputation and effectiveness will be permanently impaired...
Both colleges had previously refused to join NDEA because of a provision in the Act which required applicants to affirm that they did not support or believe in any subversive organization. President Kennedy signed an amendment Oct. 17 abolishing this disclaimer affidavit...
Both universities objected to the loan program previously because of a provision which required applicants to affirm they did not believe in or support any subversive organization. This disclaimer affidavit was repealed by the Congress...
...Curia, they won a substantial victory and thus managed to internationalize the commissions. In the atmosphere engendered by the liberals, the council a fortnight ago approved a "Message to Humanity" that one conservative priest called "too Protestant" in that it invited "all our brothers who believe in Christ" to affirm it. The gist: "All men are brothers, irrespective of the race or nation to which they belong...