Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...removal of a deadline on the West for getting out of Berlin. At Camp David, President Eisenhower had flatly refused to discuss other subjects until Khrushchev specifically dumped the deadline. Khrushchev finally agreed, but refused to put the promise in writing. Instead he said he would publicly confirm it when he returned to Moscow. That, last week...
...Podola's were a case of schizophrenia, said Edwards, he would have been 100% indifferent to everything and everybody. But the "Selective" fashion in which Podola could recall certain things from the past tended to confirm that he suffered only from hysterical amnesia. Podola, Edwards argued, was in the grip of what psychiatrists call la belle indifference-a "couldn't-care-less attitude about some things but not all things." As an example, Edwards pointed to the gesture-"absolutely incredible in a man with emotional awareness"-with which Podola had alluded to the possibility of hanging...
Many a time have I strolled through Loh-don's beautiful parks, yet cannot confirm Preacher Graham's observations...
...great human stories of Washington.'' mused the New York Times's Chief Washington Correspondent James Reston last week, "are beyond the scope of daily journalism." He was rejecting on the "rough time" that daily journalism had in trying to explain why the Senate refused to confirm Lewis Strauss as Secretary of Commerce. It was the onrush of the great human story in the Strauss affair that TIME reported in its June 15 cover story on Strauss, a story that prepared readers for the thorny issues and the thornier human personalities involved. With weekly journalism's advantages...
...difficulty of getting their programs accepted by the Administration. Finally, one Senator asked: "Mr. Acheson, what would you do if you were faced with the problem that faces us? Eisenhower will veto everything we want." Replied Dean Acheson: "I would refuse to do anything. I would refuse to confirm even one second lieutenant until those bastards give...