Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Damaging Years. Despite such troubles, many single mothers think that parenthood is the best thing that ever happened to them. "My complaints are minor," Peggy insists. "Ninetynine percent of the time, having Peter is a joy." Moreover, she believes, and her friends confirm, that she has changed for the better: "I've become a much softer person. I treat people with more kindness, and I'm less selfish...
...street has seen it happening for quite a while, but the psychologist in the laboratory is just beginning to confirm the fact: differences between men and women are indeed diminishing-or at least getting harder to detect...
...timing of the bombing tends to confirm that Mujib's trial will further stiffen Bengali resistance to the occupying West Pakistani army. If there are any chances of a political settlement -and they seem almost nonexistent-imposition of the death penalty could dash them...
Later, on the homeward voyage, Worden conducted a more esoteric experiment. Pointing his instruments at X-ray sources far out in the galaxy, he recorded the emissions for clues that might be used to confirm the existence of "black holes"-weird, theorized remnants of huge, collapsed stars. He also awed earthlings-including his two daughters-by taking a televised 18-min. walk in deep space some 200,000 miles from earth to retrieve the exposed film cassettes from the service module's cameras...
...Fourth of July and the validity of upside-down license plates. With such powerful precedents in mind, I researched the [nude swimming] issue. I began by reviewing the old Norman Rockwell paintings showing such activities taking place allegedly in Vermont. (Along this line, I was unable to confirm or refute the persistent rumor that Calvin Coolidge had also engaged in such activity within the borders of this state.) I have also discussed-after grants of immunity-experiences of this nature enjoyed by some of Vermont's prosecutors, judges, law-enforcement officers and sailboat operators. I have even reviewed past...