Word: vouch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week it was becoming clear what the Kremlin wants of Tito. It does not mean to destroy his independence, but to put it to use. Stalin's old cronies and legitimate heirs want Tito to vouch for them in the world of friendly but doubting nations of Europe and Asia, when the full facts of Stalin's crimes become known. They want Tito as a kind of ambassador extraordinary among the neutral nations, selling the Kremlin line from a new stand, using his influence to reestablish what is now, or soon will be, wholly discredited...
...resent your closing statement about the 'inglorious" end of the Marauders. As one of the medical officers, I can vouch for the undying bravery of every Marauder in Burma. In a conversation with the late General Merrill, the former commander of the Japanese forces opposing him in Burma stated that the Japanese so respected the Marauders that they decorated the graves of the American dead with flowers...
...four medical students. Offhand I couldn't think of a more depressing subject, but once at the Exeter I laughed myself silly along with a good fifty percent of the audience. Since, However, about one-half of the audience were medical students known to me personally, I cannot vouch for the layman's reaction, for the film contains a remarkable amount of professional humor, scrutable only to those in the trade. Yet non-medical friends assure me they were much amused, so I guess the jokes were not too intramural...
...rest of the white paper seemed completely fanciful. TIME Correspondent Harvey Rosenhouse, who by chance had visited Tacho Somoza's Tamarindo estate a fortnight ago, toured the whole area and was able to vouch for the fact that there was nothing like a training camp there...
...many students, and police, in Cambridge have witnessed martial law and the reading of the Riot Act in other less tranquil parts of the world? And how many have witnessed the ensuing struggle when hoodlums will not heed such measures to maintain law and order? I can vouch that defensive tactics used by the authorities are essentially similar to those used last night, the main difference being that the police normally use such methods to prevent injury from crudely armed hoodlums, not only to themselves but to the law-abiding public. Were I to ask a witness of last nights...