Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British officials in Cairo, who have learned to speak warily of any Allied victory in the desert, declined to confirm Willkie's figure. Their own "confirmed" figure: 42. But in England Churchill crowed to the House of Commons: "The House . . . may be confident in our ability to maintain a successful defense of Egypt-not for days or weeks but for several months ahead...
...entry into the war of Brazil, largest of the Latin American republics in area and population and the richest in resources, coming on the heels of Mexico's declaration of war last May, must exercise a considerable influence upon the governments of the remaining Latin American countries and confirm them in their-policy of every closer cooperation with the United States...
...least 15 of the crew were killed by gunfire. Some 20 were taken prisoner. The rest, after making 450 miles in five days in a sail-equipped lifeboat, were picked up and taken to an African port. They were the first survivors to confirm the presence of an armed surface raider in the South Atlantic...
...live to the center of a large city, the more likely you are to go insane. If you live in an urbanized riverside area (like sections of St. Louis, Milwaukee, Omaha, Kansas City and Peoria by Clarence W. Schroeder. His findings (published in the current American Journal of Sociology) confirm the striking insanity pattern for Chicago (see cut) discovered by Robert Faris and H. Warren Dunham (Mental Disorders in Urban Areas...
...power plants dynamited, warehouses, mills, bridges, ammunition supplies, fishing boats and tankers destroyed or damaged, police stations overwhelmed, Japanese houses burned. The rumble of some of these doings reached the Chinese mainland. The Japs explained that it was just a big earthquake. Seismologists in the U.S. found nothing to confirm the claim...