Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hearty, innocent laugh. He also amassed some German cameras, Swiss watches, radios and fountain pens, dropped about $3,000 at the races on tardy nags. He drew the line one evening, however, when a naughty Calcutta nightclub, featuring a couple of near-naked girl dancers, rang him up to confirm his table reservation. Protesting that the Lama was a wag's logical victim, his secretary cried: "This is horrible! This could never happen in Tibet...
...very like a baby crying in the next room, but close below our heads." When a nurse returned to the room, disappointed at having missed the event, the infant obliged with another cry so loud that a doctor put his ear on the mother's abdomen to confirm beyond doubt that the cry came from the womb. The baby (a boy) was delivered safely...
Said Italy's Cinemactress Gina Lollobrigida, 28, wife of Dr. Mirko Skofic, a physician out of practice: "I must confirm that I am expecting a child-probably in July...
...first thing that First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev did after his sensational speech attacking the "cult of personality" last February was to call a meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to have it confirm his denunciation of Stalin policy. Last week, meeting again to review the effect of his policy, the Committee faced an agenda studded with disaster...
...drive to move Sargent to Boston closer to the "mother institution" is a part of B.U. President Robert C Case's multi-million-dollar fund drive. Officials of Boston University, however, did not confirm the report that the move across the river would take place...