Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play to many more players, thus making Harvard teams better. The reporter's misunderstanding was in thinking that freshman football players were down and spiritless. This is not true; I have never made such a statement. The players' spirit has been excellent for each and every game, and to confirm this statement come over and see us play Yale...
Network radio, with armies of pulse-takers to confirm its judgment, seems to be betting its future on the assumption that the U.S. prefers comics to classics...
Firm Belief. King's secret was indeed so well kept that his closest associates in Ottawa last week were unable either to confirm or deny that he was a practicing spiritualist. Some of them knew that King attended seances in London and Paris, but they attributed his curiosity to his religious nature and his firm belief in life after death. None of them could say whether, in the privacy of his study, Mackenzie King actually tried to communicate with his dead mother or whether his spiritualist experiments had any effect upon his conduct of the country's affairs...
...legal hurdle to clear. The National Security Act of 1947 provides that a military man may not legally be Defense Secretary unless he has been out of active service for ten years. In one breath the President asked the Senate to amend the act for this special case and confirm the general (who retired as Chief of Staff five years...
...general still had to run around the track again while the Senate argued whether to confirm him. But there could be no doubt that Congress would agree to place the burden of maintaining the nation's military security once again on George Marshall's soldierly shoulders...