Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward Brooke, a moderate Republican, was one of the unimpressed: "The President did not answer these serious charges with any specifics. We wanted facts; he gave us rhetoric." Michigan Republican Governor William Milliken, similarly, said he had hoped that Nixon "might be willing, in a more tangible way, to confirm what he was saying." Republican Congressman Mark Andrews of North Dakota agrees that the public is more concerned about high food prices than about Watergate, but he also believes that the two different problems "make a most potent political combination...
...reached 180 beats per minute or they became fatigued. Fourteen of the stationary runners said that they experienced second wind, while twelve did not. But in neither group could the doctors measure any significant physical changes that would enable the runners to perform better or longer. Their findings thus confirm what many athletes have long suspected: in sports, the head is as important as the body...
While Haldeman deftly deflected all attempts by the Ervin committee to get him to confirm the damaging claims of other witnesses, he ran into senatorial outrage as he tried to carry out his main mission before the committee: to show that Richard Nixon had no knowledge of the massive cover-up conspiracy. Haldeman's sensational weapon was his revelation that the President had permitted him to listen to some of the taped conversations between Nixon and Dean that are among the objects of a legal showdown between the Congress and the President...
...official visit to London, said that his government's preliminary inquiry showed a massacre of 400 villagers "could not have taken place." A Catholic bishop in Mozambique who in published reports claimed that he had seen the dead bodies later stubbornly declined either to confirm or deny that there had been a massacre. In Lisbon, officials insisted that Wiriyamu did not even exist. Indeed, Father Hastings two weeks ago placed it in western central Mozambique, but next day corrected himself, saying it was in the eastern Tete province. Reporters have been searching for it ever since, and for anyone...
...Biscayne on March 30, 1972. But Mitchell said his reaction at that meeting was "We don't need this. I am tired of hearing it. Out! Let's not discuss it any further." Mitchell implied that his then assistant, Frederick LaRue, the only other person present, would confirm his story. Yet LaRue, in a talk with the Ervin committee staff, quoted Mitchell as putting the matter aside, saying there was "no need to make a decision at this time...