Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sanders would not confirm that he had been offered the Harvard position last night, but admitted that he expected to be contacted by Harvard "either Monday or Tuesday." Up until his personal interview with Harvard officials on Friday, Sanders had not been considered the premier contender for the position. According to one source, "He impressed the committee with his poise, intelligence, and depth...
WHEN A MAN returns from a war, he is placed on a pedestal and bombarded with a deadly barrage of questions. "Were you wounded?" people want to know. "Did it hurt? Did you kill anyone?" He is asked to confirm the strange notions of war Americans are bred on: that is is horrible, that it is a nightmare, but that in the end it somehow makes a better...
Thus the grand jury seemed frustrated in trying to confirm McCord's reports. But on April 6, for reasons that are still not clear, Counsel Dean gave information to the Watergate prosecutors in the Justice Department that corroborated for the first time much of what McCord was claiming. His motive could have been connected with the fact that only two weeks earlier he had been publicly accused...
...mediation does not, never did and never will exist," Kott concludes, pushing himself and his heroes against the wall, "if cruelty is the rule of the universe, one can confirm it even with one's own agony." What the tragic hero knows at last is that he is in rebellion against life itself-against the very terms of human mortality. No wonder the tragic hero became obsolete even in his own time, replaced as a heroic prototype by the crafty, adjustable Odysseus-a survivor who was excessive only at compromise, the perfect artist of the possible...
Dialogue. That concern faded almost as soon as Brandt, in a blue suit and orange tie, marched up to the blue and orange podium in Hannover. "This Congress has to confirm explicitly that what the Social Democrats said before the election is valid for them after the election," he said. "Whoever does not occupy the center cannot hold the majority in a democracy; whoever loses the center cannot govern." Blasting Juso calls for an American troop withdrawal, he said: "Without America's presence, we would not be able to negotiate realistically on European security ... But our American partners have...