Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Douglas retired to nurse his bruises-and to consider appealing to an old senatorial custom; if he opposes the appointments made against his recommendation, the Senate is likely to refuse to confirm Harry Truman's choices...
...started when Harry Truman picked Richardson to head the Subversive Activities Control Board. That aroused the Senate's one-man roadblock, Nevada's testy Pat McCarran, chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee. McCarran would not even permit a hearing on whether Congress should confirm Richardson and the four other board appointees, because McCarran wanted to handle loyalty himself. Last week Richardson quit, giving as his reason a critical surgical operation ordered by his doctors. Then...
Such airy servings, neatly calculated to confirm preconceived British notions, have won Iddon the Fleet Street title of "Britain's Walter Winchell." Since 1943, bumptious Reporter Iddon ("let's face it, I'm a terrific egotist") has been doing his diary the way his bosses and readers seem to like it-by skimming the foam from the U.S. scene...
...Board of Overseers meets at 11 a.m. today in the Faculty Room of University Hall to confirm the appointment the Corporation recommended a week age. Overseers almost invariably rubber stamp Corporation nominations for University positions...
...Several other precipitation tests also commonly used are based on the same principle. The true Wassermann, a "complement fixation" test, often serves as a court of appeal, is used to confirm positive reactions from other tests...