Word: confirms
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...sometimes difficult being a socialist in America. False identifications of Socialism with totalitarianism and false stereotypes of socialists as being irresponsible loons abound. These misconceptions are a real obstacle to building a socialist movement. The problem with a Spartacists is that they confirm practically every misconception about Socialism there could be. They are totalitarians, and they are irresponsible loons. I hope that their lunacy does not deter people from finding out about the genuine Left on this campus. Tom Canel...
Unfortunately, Sperry looks at ethical questions from a misguided perspective, and he overestimates the ability of science to solve even technical problems. "History and common observation," he writes, "confirm that nothing is more proficient than science at prescribing what ought to prevail in order to achieve almost any defined aim...The same applies in regard to ultimate aims...
...Steiner would not confirm this remark yesterday, adding that he did not know if Calkins had actually made such a statement...
Polish television announced Walesa's release, saying only that he "did not confirm" the fact of his clandestine meetings. Walesa's wife Danuta, who was later ordered to report for a 2½-hour interrogation session, gave Polish authorities no further information beyond the fact that her husband had been absent from their home for three days and that he was "a grownup person." Even Mieczyslaw Wachowski, Walesa's occasional chauffeur, was called in for questioning by the suspicious police...
Hale Champion, executive dean of the K-School, refused to confirm any of the details, saying it was "still in the discussion stages...