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Word: confirmant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four MIGs. Although the ensuing dogfight was too fast and furious for the U.S. pilots to make positive identification, the MIGs almost certainly belonged to the Chinese Communists rather than the North Vietnamese. When the battle was over, one Phantom jet was missing, though the Pentagon refused to confirm the loss officially. As for the MIGs, they beat a hasty retreat in the direction of Hainan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: How It Happened | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...they are willing to admit, but nothing indicates that either the extent or quality (truly addictive drugs are very rare) constitutes a real emergency. The absence of any apparent federal presence, which could easily clean out a truly dangerous situation in such an open place as Harvard, seems to confirm this view...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Drugs at Harvard | 3/11/1965 | See Source »

Robert V. Pound, professor of Physics, and Glen A. Rebka Jr. '53 will share the 1965 Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for their experiments helping to confirm Einstein's Principle of Equivalence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pound Receives Eddington Medal | 2/3/1965 | See Source »

Question 5, which takes away from the Governor's Council the power to confirm nearly all appointments, passed easily but on the basis of an irrelevant consideration: the indictment of three current and one former councilor. The logic which demands that the Council be abolished when its members come under a cloud presumably should have called for the abolition of the State Police after its commissioner was indicted, but that has not happened. Furthermore, since it takes two to give a bribe, one can hardly expect that the practice of buying one's appointment will cease just because the storekeeper...

Author: By Donal F. Holway, | Title: Massachusetts | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

JUDY: That's quite all right. And surely you mean lenses, Jake. What a superb melange de style Vierney achieves utilizing quasi-fish-eye, extreme wide angle, kaleidoscopic, wide angle standard focal length, and long lens shots. Shots that delicately commingle the chameleon pastel shades and confirm Resnais's mastery of montage and complete command of mise en scene. Surely, one of the great auteurs...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: Muriel | 10/24/1964 | See Source »

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