Word: reaffirm
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...Agreement in blackface. What's really wrong with the film, however, stems from Griffin's original thesis. His discovery of the Negro world was a clever bit of behind-the-scenes journalism, not a blow for human rights, and his uniquely personal experience does little but reaffirm the existence of bigotry. Magnified on the screen, it suggests unintentionally that the public and private indignities suffered by the black man appear somehow more cogent, vivid and unjust when a white man has to bear them...
...Crimson trackmen seek to reaffirm their supremacy among local collegians in the third annual Greater Boston Conference meet at Brandeis today and tomorrow. McCurdy & Co. beat out North-eastern 74-61 for first place in this year's indoor competition, and the coach expects the outdoor results to be about the same...
...goes without saying that section men should be supervised more closely, and that incompetent teaching fellows should not be rehired. But these administrative reforms are of limited value. The real answer to poor instruction by teaching fellows is not higher pay and more control; it is, rather, to reaffirm the value of and the regard for teaching, at all levels of the Faculty, as central to the purposes of a university...
...America must have a choice, and freedom must have a chance. Republican principles, Republican candidacies offer the choice, give the chance and reaffirm the right of the people of this God-blessed nation to reclaim the powers they are losing, to rededicate the will they are wasting, and to win the peace for which they are praying...
However, Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder declared flatly that the new government would not risk straining its ties with the U.S., and later flew to Washington to reaffirm Germany's cautious support for "policies of motion" to ease East-West tensions, to which De Gaulle and Adenauer are both opposed...