Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sale seemed to confirm some Western suspicions about the state of Soviet agriculture. Russia has always been an exporter of wheat, and usually went into the market only to shore up its satellites or because it was cheaper to ship Canadian grain across the Pacific to Siberia than send its own wheat the 7,000-mile length of Russia. At that, the Soviets never bought more than 14.8 million bu. a year...
...what capital city in Europe is a beheaded man the patron saint? It is by such recondite clues that the reader comes to understand that the scene of Susan Sontag's The Benefactor is, in fact, Paris. The publishers confirm this on the book jacket. "Identifiable as Paris" is the tentative concession, as if Farrar, Straus had only reached a majority decision on the issue...
...wave front, he figured, would accelerate. The whole front would then bend back earthward and rumble down. Diamond figured that he might be able to bounce a boom off the upper stream, predict its course, and record the boom as it came back to earth, thus helping to confirm his rocket data...
...election seemed to confirm that for Argentina in the near future the worst was over. Foreign commerce is picking up, the peso is rallying, and the cost-of-living curve is flattening...
...cocktailparty cheek-kiss. Such stories originate not in an event but in a discovery-a correspondent, a writer or an editor has an impression, based on his own experience, that an old tradition is no longer honored or that a new mannerism is in vogue. It is easy to confirm (or sometimes to knock down) his hunch by checking with our correspondents in all parts of the country, who often turn up significant sectional variations in U.S. behavior that add to the story. An editor's observation that more teen agers spend their summer vacations working than used...