Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever-daunting Butler and a number of role players--senior Cara Frey and Proudfit, for example--who were expected to step up and make major contributions. An impressive pre-season trip to Ireland on which the team went 5-1 against a miscellany of Irish squads only seemed to confirm such promise...
...Kooning off. He came back in the late '70s with some big, rapturously congested landscape-body images with a deeper tonal structure that, though they do not support the comparisons to late Monet, Renoir, Bonnard "and, of course, Titian" that David Sylvester makes in his catalog essay, certainly confirm that the movement of De Kooning's talent was not on-off, but ebb and flow...
...month, after a Northern tank brigade attacked and defeated a force from the South in a town northwest of San'a, the country was plunged into war. As the fighting carried on in the rugged mountains that line the former border between North and South, it was impossible to confirm either side's claims to imminent victory. "There is not a military solution to the Yemen problem," said Robert Pelletreau, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, who was trapped temporarily in San'a after a failed mediation attempt...
...many cases, students voting in thereferendum were not required to showidentification, they said. The procedures appearedto be most lax in the Freshman Union, where therewas no effort to confirm voters' identities...
...discovery provided grim evidence of the harshness of 17th century life. Hair analysis showed that Anne Calvert took medicines containing arsenic and that she had an iron deficiency -- suggesting that she had been subjected to bloodletting for an illness. After more study, including DNA analysis to confirm the child's identity, the Calverts will be reburied -- this time in properly marked graves...