Word: reaffirm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet note was accurate right down to the detail that the U-2 had been over Sakhalin for nine minutes. The U.S. reply acknowledged that "an unintentional violation may have taken place." It went on to reaffirm the U.S. ban-set by President Eisenhower after the Francis Gary Powers flight in May 1960 and continued by President Kennedy-against flights over Russian territory...
Raising his voice to his high oratorical pitch, Castro cried again that he was a Communist ("We reaffirm that we are Marxist-Leninists"), bitterly attacked the U.S. ("repugnantly shameful, criminal, odious") and Colombia's Lleras Camargo ("that bilious character") for leading the diplomatic moves against him. But his real message seemed to be to those Latin American nations who might be wondering about his own intentions. Castro swore that his new arms were not for export, and in the favorite nobody-here-but-us-chickens rhetoric of Communism added: "We know that only the peoples themselves can carry...
Sadly Mistaken. On the other hand, if Khrushchev expected that he could bully and stampede the free world into a state of defenseless fear, he was sadly mistaken. "We must not be cowed," said Secretary General Shigesaburo Maeo of Japan's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, "but must reaffirm our determination to continue resistance against such inhuman conduct." Said Philippines President Carlos P. Garcia: "If Russia does not stop her defiant disregard of the feelings of entire humanity, she will inevitably reap what she has sown." Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke for the entire free world when...
Dean Monro, the chairman of the Peace Corps advisory committee here, would only reaffirm his confidence in the 23-year-old girl whose intercepted postcard touched off the demonstrations. He described her last night as "fine and dedicated...
...information at 600 lines a minute, saving not only countless hours but what one lawyer termed "thousands of dollars in salaries for law clerks and secretaries." New York's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, urged a federal system of public defenders to "reaffirm to the world that all our citizens, regardless of their power, poverty or color, are afforded the equal protection of our laws...