Word: affirming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Group Agreement, drafted in 1954, states in Section III, "The Group affirm their conviction that under proper conditions intercollegiate competition in organized athletics offers desirable development and recreation for players and a healthy focus of collegiate loyalty. These conditions require that the players shall be truly representative of the student body and not composed of a group of specially recruited athletes...
When the children grow up, they find it hard to break away from the father who's been so good to them, and yet they cannot affirm his values, and yet (again) they have no better values to substitute. So, says Goodman, they go beat...
...lecture, James reminded his listeners: "What [democracy's] critics now affirm is that its preferences are inveterately for the inferior . . . Vulgarity enthroned and institutionalized, elbowing everything superior from the highway, this, they tell us, is our irremediable destiny; and the picture-papers of the European Continent are already drawing Uncle Sam with the hog instead of the eagle for his heraldic emblem...
...week's end Khrushchev's rocketrattling support of Castro's Cuba struck Eisenhower as a threat that demanded a fast reply. "I affirm in the most emphatic terms that the U.S. will not be deterred from [its] responsibility by the threats Mr. Khrushchev is making," said he. "Nor will the U.S., in conformity with its treaty obligations, permit the establishment of a regime dominated by international Communism in the Western Hemisphere...
...Christian is entitled to believe only in what is humanly possible. We have to affirm-and really mean it-that 'with men it is impossible, but with God all things are possible.' And this is why the dialogue is important; not because we know what will come of it, but precisely because we do not know what may come...