Word: confirming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their removal was accelerated by the advent at the front of the house of what S.J. Perelman or somebody used to call a white-faced underling, who interrupted the movie to offer the patrons their money back, and to confirm the suspicion that most of them had been entertaining for some minutes...
...Stanley Karnow could report with authority on the attitude of Red China's bosses toward birth control, including their brief experiment with the most unconventional oral contraceptive ever advocated by a 20th century government. In Brazil, Correspondent Jayme Dantas traveled four hours out of Rio de Janeiro to confirm with its proud sire the existence of a single-family population explosion of 36 children...
...Russia's 1959 census, which reported a population of almost 209 million (v. a pre-1956 claim of 220 million), seemed to confirm what Western experts had long suspected: for the first decade after World War II, Stalin deliberately sought to conceal from the West how badly wartime casualties (between 15 million and 20 million) had cut into Russian manpower...
Reports from the Astronauts confirm rumors that the Soviet Union is indeed establishing customs on the moon. Asked about moon import duties, at his weekly news conference, President Eisenhower comments, "It is a small price to pay for security." The Senate debates recognition of the other side of the moon. Administrative vice President Reynolds announces that ('s) graffitos will be drawn for the asking, in any room of the Leverett towers...
...visible half of the moon, giving Africa in trade. Shortly thereafter, he is crowned "Moon King" by adoring Frenchmen. Dean Bundy decides to tour Russia and is termed "Prince of Peace" by adoring Russians. He explains that the trip was "non-political," that he "only wanted to confirm Lacy-Zarubin exchange." President Pusey wires Yale President Griswold, "5 will get you 10 'Ole Mac he's back in town...