Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus it will seem to an American audience that he relies too heavily on his readers' assumed sympathy as his binding thread. He will confirm, but he will not convince. (It is worth remembering, however, that he is writing in an English journal, for an audience that is more skeptical of civil defence than Americans appear to be, and certainly less informed about this country's shelter-craze.) Nonetheless, "The Illusion of Civil Defence" is a particularly interesting, particularly disappointing instance of what seems to happen to almost anyone who tires to speak intelligently on the subject. Piel's article...
After writing some ten million perishable words, Lolly has misspelled so many names that pressagents now usually confirm every telephone tip with a typed copy sent to her Beverly Hills home. She once exhumed an author dead a decade to report that he was busily retooling a book of his as a film vehicle for Dolores del Rio. After she reported that Conrad Nagel was handholding at the Derby with Frances Somebody-or-Other, she hardly seemed fazed to discover that Frances was really Francis-and that there had been no handholding. But her friends stand by her: when...
...view of some of its despairing critics, New York City is just too large and complex for any one man to govern properly-and Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner has certainly done much to confirm that belief during his eight fumbling, scandal-specked years in office. But Wagner is a Democrat, and New York is an overwhelmingly Democratic city. And last week, after one of the dreariest campaigns in its history, New York gave Bob Wagner 1,239,533 votes for a plurality of 402,980 over his Republican opponent, Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz. Running as an independent, City Controller Lawrence...
...once cleaved the peak, had been filled with rock and refuse swept from fallen buildings. Some of the pottery pieces found in the gorge are identical with crockery of the Phyrgians. According to ancient traditions, the Phyrgians were once overlords over the Lydians, and the new findings help to confirm this...
...Lottman's review of West Side Story, in which he, having personally enjoyed the film, attempts to APOLOGIZE to his readers for NOT finding bad performances by Natalie Wood and Russ Tamblyn, or NOT finding poor direction, or NOT finding bad photography, and hence NOT being able to confirm what Mr. Lottman considers his readers' preconceived "shudders" over Hollywood's of the play...