Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wacker was unavailable to confirm this last night...
...used ritually in South America for more than 2,000 years. The visions they induce are socially shared and, it seems, consistent with one another. That is the crucial difference. A Huichol Indian, for instance, goes to the peyote ceremony knowing that his encounter with the sacred cactus will confirm his tribal consciousness, its myths and traditional units of experience...
Reports from each of TIME's U.S. bureaus largely confirm the FBI figures and suggest that the U.S. crime rate, though cruelly high, is finally leveling off. While crime continues to rise in rural and suburban areas, Washington, New York, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco are among 72 cities reporting an actual drop in major crimes. "I am not what you would call a starry-eyed dreamer," says Detroit Commissioner John Nichols, "but I am tempted to say that law enforcement is on the eve of a golden age. Now we are getting the money we need...
...pictures were Henri Rousseau's The Tropics and The Olive Pickers by Van Gogh. Last week the Met disclosed that two more of its paintings, a Modigliani and a Juan Gris, had also been traded to Marlborough for two unnamed works of art. Though the Metropolitan refuses to confirm or deny it, it is an open secret in the art world that these are a painting by Clyfford Still and a sculpture by David Smith, both of whom are represented by Marlborough...
...created this hill, and I have come now in this day to repossess it. It will bring millions of souls to me." Then, incredibly on such a clear day, thunder rumbles in the hills. Fran Klug rubs her eyes. But it does not take a sign to confirm the faith of her followers. They have already formed a corporation for Fran's "Hill of Hope" and have raised the $100,000 down payment on a $1.1 million purchase of its 440 acres...