Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Star Finale. That was about all the committee needed to confirm its worst suspicions of the extent and brazen confidence of the Chicago syndicate. Next week, in the wind-up hearings, Estes Kefauver will bring his roadshow to New York, where an all-star cast, including Frank Costello, Joe Adonis and Meyer Lansky, unhappily awaits him. Then the committee will sit down to write its final report...
Your Dean Acheson piece reaches new, dizzier peaks of tendentiousness . . . Your determination to look facts in the face without seeing them will also confirm European alarm and dismay at. the insane irresponsibility of American politics...
With this, Freedman tacked wildly, offered to put up $10,000 to clear Mrs. Rosenberg's good name. This was unnecessary. The committee cleared her completely and unequivocally, voted 13 to 0 to confirm...
...time at the State Department, MacLeish concentrated on explaining the Department to the public. It was his project that brought representatives from 40 or 50 major U. S. organizations to San Francisco to watch the American delegation at the birth of the United Nations. Recent events have tended to confirm MacLeish's long-standing view that the Department's first concern should be to sell itself to the American public before devoting all its propaganda efforts to foreign areas...
Since all such patients firmly believe themselves pregnant, it does no good simply to tell them that they are not, said Dr. Fried and his colleagues. A woman with pseudocyesis will go shopping for another doctor to confirm her pregnancy, or her symptoms will soon recur. A careful explanation with a little psychiatric treatment does the trick, said the doctors. Four of their patients, infertile for two to seven years, later became really pregnant...