Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet weekend with Lars in a wooden summer cottage on a Swedish West Coast island. "I love that little island," purred Ingrid, who had once been enchanted by another idyllic island, Stromboli. Asked whether a marriage was in the making, Bachelor Schmidt replied: "We can neither deny nor confirm that," but the couple announced that they would spend their summer together on what local wits had dubbed "New Stromboli...
...Where there are massive flu outbreaks there are also countless infections too mild to be detected but effective in giving immunity. Fragmentary U.S. studies confirm the experience in Hong Kong, where four out of five people had nothing worse than the sniffles, but most of them later showed protective antibodies...
...loan of the painting from London's Courtauld Institute for the Chicago Seurat show (TIME, Jan. 20), decided to test the legend by X ray. To their delight, they found beneath the paint the blurred outline of a man's head. The discovery tended to confirm the tale that Seurat had painted it over after a friend had pointed out that it would be in dubious taste...
Within 30 days a plebiscite will be held to confirm the President in office and ratify a temporary constitution covering the first six months. The new President is scheduled to take office before the end of March, and choose his Cabinet and a Governor of Syria for the six-month transition period. Next summer the combined electorate will vote for a permanent constitution and a Parliament. With Egypt's 24 million people added to Syria's 4,000,000, the new state will include more than half of all Arabs in the Middle East...
Unable to confirm anything, the A.P. allowed early Tuesday that there were still "no hints as to the mystery traveler's identity"-but volunteered no hints as to the identity of its mysterious news informants. Turning to such tried-and-true sources as Estes Kefauver and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Fred Whipple (who, said A.P., "expressed no surprise"), the A.P.-in common with big-city newspapers-kept the astronaut aloft with scientific and political punditry...