Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson was swamped yesterday morning with calls from newspapers and wire services trying to confirm the story. The Associated Press and many local radio stations carried stories announcing Kissinger's return in their morning reports...
...widespread ticket splitting seemed to confirm the fading influence of bloc voting and party loyalty. "Never before has partisanship meant so little," noted California Pollster Mervin Field. "I just don't see a coalescing back to the traditional loyalties." Larry O'Brien, former Democratic National Chairman, saw a more ominous sign in the balloting. Citing the alarmingly low national voter turnout,* he observed: "Half the population is turned off on both parties and on the system itself...
...this seems to confirm Fordham Anthropologist Warren Swidler's observation that Mead's "private life has been a shambles; she's not been very happy, so she's gone outward. Much as she loves people, her great commitment is to science." Then how does Mead, with a disordered personal life, presume to counsel the young? The answer may well be that the same hurts that motivated Mead to achievement gave her the insights necessary to help others...
Both AP and UPI were skeptical and called back. Beach and Powers posed as Yale staffers confirmed the report and told the wire version that Yale President Kingman Brewater had told them to have anyone at anytime call him to confirm the report...
...sustain his marriage, hated his exwife, and was said to be awkward and uncomfortable around women. The man who was subdued before he could hijack a National Airlines jet in New York was discovered to be wearing women's underclothes. What is known about both men seems to confirm Hubbard's belief that skyjackers are emotionally disturbed. In his experience, they are not strong, masculine supermen but weak, longtime losers, men who have failed at life and love. They tend to be passive, effeminate, latently homosexual, and afraid of their eldest sisters and mothers...