Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dark chapter. On top of Harvard's standard academic and social pressure, the visitor from the Midwest had to struggle with a mysterious illness that caused debilitating headaches and depression junior and senior years. His ultimately successful battle against the ailment, and in particular his self-diagnosis, only confirm the power of Bremen-style tenacity: "You just figure that there's got to be some way to beat that problem...
...preliminary, however, to the real battle between the Rebel Alliance and the corrupt Empire, and to the contest of wills between Luke, the last of the Jedis, and the black-caped, black-masked Darth Vader. Yoda, the 900-year-old Jedi master from The Empire Strikes Back, reappears to confirm what Luke feared most: Darth Vader is indeed his father, a former Jedi knight who was seduced by the evil Emperor and turned to the "dark" side of the Force, to hate rather than to love. Luke will never be a real Jedi, Yoda says, until he has confronted...
This is the case with tonight's patient After the all-night session, the results of the monitors will confirm the diagnosis of a severe obstruction in his throat, and the need for a tracheotomy. In other words, the patient will have a permanent incision made in his throat, which will enable him to sleep uninterrupted by bypassing the block. "Laxity of the soft tissues in the throat and palate," according to Stakes, makes the operation necessary...
Reagan was less philosophical. He told aides that the House committee action was "irresponsible as hell." But in an interview with six reporters on the day after the vote, Reagan stumbled repeatedly in trying to explain his policies. He seemed to confirm that assistance to the contras was more than just a way to stop arms shipments to the Salvadoran rebels. He referred to the contras as "freedom fighters" and praised their struggle as a legitimate response to the broken promises of the Sandinista regime...
...been an open secret that the State Department took care neither to confirm nor deny. As long as it was widely believed but not officially acknowledged that the U.S. was helping Afghan guerrillas resist the Soviet occupation of their country, the Reagan Administration enjoyed the best of all worlds. It could bask in the credit for aiding a just cause without interference from Congress or propaganda attacks from the East bloc...