Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear it, refined torture." By now, Hyams was himself hearing it on occasion. He took the matter up with the county council, but was brushed off. A local M.P. raised the question in the House of Commons, but got only the stony reply that "inquiries have failed to confirm the existence of the noise...
...girl friend who had sponsored Sasha's application, blushed crimson, and Vitali paled in horror. Then, according to Komsomolskaya Pravda, everybody decided that it was just too ridiculous-good old Sasha must have been kidding-and they accepted him anyway. Later, when his membership came up for confirmation by the school Komsomol committee, he admitted once again that he believed in God. His father had been giving him Bible instruction ever since he was a little boy. But when Sasha denied going to church or wearing a cross, the committee decided to confirm his membership...
...last concerned over its deteriorating popularity in Asia, and some thought they could guess the kind of bargain Chou hoped to strike. Red China recently settled its border dispute with Burma by abandoning its claims to Burmese territory south of the McMahon Line. Perhaps Red China would similarly confirm India's northeastern borders along the 700 miles of the watershed McMahon Line, if allowed in the northwest to keep the 9,000 square miles of Kashmir around Ladakh, where Red China has built a strategic military road running from its own Sinkiang province into Tibet...
...propagandist, made him public-relations officer of the party. Odede, in turn, was locked up in March 1953, and Mboya became acting treasurer, despite an order from Kenyatta sent through clandestine channels: "He is a very young man and I've only met him once, so do not confirm the appointment...
Three days later, in the Kennedy family's Convair, Jack and handsome Wife Jackie flew out to Milwaukee to make the official announcement, also confirm previous plans to enter Nebraska's nonbinding primary. Plain-spoken as always, Kennedy startled reporters by pointing out that his "principal adversary" in the big race was not Humphrey but Texas' Lyndon Johnson, already credited with control of some 350 Southern delegates. Kennedy twitted Johnson as well as Missouri's Stuart Symington for refusing to meet him in the primaries. They remain safely on the side lines, he charged, "hoping...