Word: attestations
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first show in Winthrop on Friday.“I was just talking to my roommates one day, telling a joke, and they said, ‘You should try stand up.’”“MY LAUGH”As the comedians themselves attest, getting a slot on stage is far easier than succeeding on that stage.“My first show, I was terrible, I bombed,” Bohrer recalls. “I had a few good jokes, but I was completely nervous.”“Since...
...bolster undergraduate social life, the program dishes out $1,750 weekly to students who wish to host parties. In his letter, Pilbeam wrote that although he is “sympathetic to the goals of the program,” all recent reports by House officials and administrators attest to the fact that the program does not adequately ensure that students under 21 are not being served alcohol. Since the UC has not assumed responsibility in preventing this problem, the proverbial party is over.The Dean’s letter threw the student body into a tizzy, and house and student...
...fantastical nature and foreshadowing the couple’s sad fate.In the center of the six paintings on display are three tea-colored, yet brightly illustrated “Layla and Majnun” books, two of which are Persian. The most compelling part of the collection, the books attest to the value of the exhibit as living history. “Layla and Majnun Embracing Surrounded by Wild Animals” is a 16th century Iranian folio that features a bold orange illustration of the lovers and artfully arranged text spanning across the book’s center. Colorful...
...anxious about changing their minds. They know opponents are waiting to hammer them as opportunists or just plain confused, as Mitt Romney, dogged by accusations of flip-flopping over abortion, and John Kerry, who ineptly said he had voted for a supplemental funding bill before voting against it, can attest. Yet our nation's leaders often change their minds. If they didn't, we might still be slave-owning British subjects. When and why they do so can be instructive...
...government and other Shi'ite factions. More likely he is responding to the bad publicity resulting from the scuttling of the commemoration in Karbala. He responded in similar fashion to this year's U.S. troop surge, pledging his full cooperation. As Americans in Shi'ite areas of Iraq can attest, the gap between Sadr's rhetoric and the actions of his militia is often vast...