Word: vouch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes they ventured to tell each other stories. Pollock writes cautiously: "It is said-I don't vouch for it-that when President Wilson et ux. were here Mrs. W. asked the Queen what she thought about the Freedom of the Seas, and the Queen answered that she had not quite made up her mind about mixed bathing." Both men were insatiable readers; but books were not an end in themselves but a part of life, and they treated them with less formality than they treated one another. Typical Pollock treatment...
Hagel said that the pictures will have a 90 per cent chance of being run in Life, but he could not vouch for any complementary remarks, since Oliver Jensen a Yale man, will probably write the accompanying article...
...nobody's "political stalking horse." I had around me, during that campaign, supporters from the two political parties of the Province of Quebec, as I had working against me certain people from the same parties. The population of Montreal knows that, and well-informed people can vouch that Mr. Maurice Duplessis did not, at any time during the campaign, support my candidature...
...evidence is overwhelming that polls conducted by scientific methods of sampling public opinion are accurate. But TIME does not conduct the Gallup Poll and, although that poll's record has been good, cannot vouch for its complete scientific accuracy. Senator Wheeler might suggest to Dr. Gallup that they jointly conduct a poll in Montana under conditions that will satisfy both of them...