Word: attestable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sports events and movies. He also races sailboats well enough to have been named Yachtsman of the Year in 1970 and 1973, and to have skippered Mariner in the 1974 America's Cup trials. "I'd rather sink than lose" is his shipboard motto, and crews can attest that "Terrible Ted" means it. But Turner does not look for easy victories. He bought American Eagle, a proven failure in two America's Cup trials, refitted her and skippered her to a series of impressive victories in the rugged Southern Ocean Racing Conference...
...fool his unsuspecting subject; in Orgeval, France. Strand broke with the soft-focus romantic tradition, aiming instead at social realism and commitment. His series of still lifes of New England, the Maine coast and Western towns, as well as such famous photographs as the Blind Woman and The Family, attest to his goal of seeing "something outside myself -always. I'm not trying," he explained, "to describe an inner state of being." In the 1920s and '30s he made documentary films, including The Wave, which portrayed a Mexican fishermen's strike...
Anyone who went to Hanover last year will attest that Dartmouth people take their football seriously, and for them the Harvard game is unquestionably the biggest game of the year, with the result that they concomitantly drink pretty seriously...
...impression that remained after the contest was that these things happen every week at Big Red football games. In any event, the day did not lack interest, as any ABC director will be glad to attest...
...knows what it is the pictures have trapped. The easter eggs made of alumnium that look like walnuts, the other figurines on top of roofs in a picture of a family at the fair, Uncle Sam gesturing to the thin air next to a telephone pole, all of these attest to the madness of this world, the sheer absurdity. So you might as well sit back and enjoy the symmetry of the boy and his mother on one side and the bush and its shadow on the other; or become disquieted by the rough curve of the Great Pink Snail...