Word: confirmed
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Complaining about the pain in his legs, Key, 54, was referred to Dr. Michael DeBakey, a world-famed vascular surgeon at Houston's Methodist Hospital. During an extensive examination, Dr. DeBakey placed a stethoscope on the right side of Key's neck, heard a telltale sound. To confirm his suspicions, he had an opaque dye injected into Key's bloodstream and an X ray taken; the resulting picture showed constriction from a large atheroma in the right carotid arteries that supply Key's brain...
Acceptance letters were sent out yesterday to 361 students, 66 per cent from public high schools, 30 per cent from private schools, the remaining four per cent from foreign schools. These figures confirm a trend of the last few years toward admitting more public school applicants; last year, 59 per cent of the new freshman class came from public schools, and 37 per cent from private schools...
...Draper says this proposal was just propaganda. At least one writer has reported Castro's worries that his trip to the U.S. would make the Cubans think he had sold out. If this is true, then Castro must have thought that asking for aid, or simply accepting it, would confirm many of their suspicions. Draper does not even consider whether Castro might have seen any difference between the roles of supplicant and partner in an aid plan...
Astronomers suspect that the ionosphere itself may be a radio transmitter, and University astronomers hope to confirm this. They are also trying to find out how radio noise from the earth and its ionosphere fluctuates between day and night, and from latitude to latitude, and how such phenomena as sun-spot activity and solar flares influence its intensity...
Monsieur Pierre Salinger, one of our everyday faithful, can confirm my proud opinion of our establishment...