Word: confirming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telephone, and called anyone who might be interested in diseased Yalics. The AP. the UPI. the New Haven Register, WRKO. All the heavy weights. We were putting the massive hurt to New Haven. Both the AP and UPI were skeptical, and called back. We both posed as Yale staffers, confirmed the sad report, and told them that Brewster, the Yale president, had told us to have anyone call him at anytime to confirm the forfeit. This was our finest moment. AP fell for it, and called everyone they could think of at Yale...
Berman, who said he thinks Haynsworth is an honest and intelligent judge, added, "I have a feeling Judge Haynsworth would decide on his legal opinions, not his prejudices." Berman said Haynsworth "would not have been my choice" but added "I'm inclined to think I'd vote to confirm...
...five male and five female, none known to each other. In the course of the experiment, each was confronted on separate occasions with each of the other nine. Their dominant-submissive ratings had been previously established, and Champ-ness was interested in seeing to what degree their reaction would confirm the pattern. The results fascinated him. He used a scale in which 1 equals a perfect hierarchy (everyone knows whom he dominates and who dominates him) and 0 equals no hierarchy at all (nobody knows his place). On that particular scale, Champness' group of subjects rated .8, which means...
...States. The success of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese has shown that the United States does not have the strength to deliver on its promises of protection to the puppet regimes through which it manipulates internal politics in countries of the Third World. An American withdrawal would confirm this paramount lesson of Vietnam. and it is thus understandable that President Nixon and his advisors have "ruled out" the possibility of an abrupt, immediate withdrawal...
...movie can't change anybody; it can only confirm what you already believe," Downey said in an interview last week. "I want to convince people who are insane that they're right, and should stay with...