Search Details

Word: affirmed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Legal experts are pessimistic about Pedlosky's chances of winning his suit. Several professors of Law have predicted that the oath will stand in the Supreme Judicial Court. The oath is widely regarded as an innocuous one; it has no disclaimer and merely requires signers to affirm loyalty to the constitutions of the Commonwealth and the United States and to promise to "faithfully discharge the duties" of their offices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bowles Campaign | 3/24/1966 | See Source »

...being identified as a civil rights stalwart. Ask him how long it will be before the Negro is accepted, and he will answer, "at least two generations." He advocates restraint and indirect charges as the most effective means of promoting race relations. For him, extremists on both sides merely affirm false notions about the South and the North and endanger the good will among moderates, liberals, and Negroes...

Author: By Boisfeuillet Jones, | Title: Terry Sanford | 3/9/1966 | See Source »

...listens to his conscience these days?" With his 80th birthday approaching and an exhibition of his drawings on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the world's greatest living architect, took time last week to affirm that he, for one, still heeded his conscience, that his faith in his own first principles was as firm as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Affirming the Absolutes | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

Each teacher who takes the loyalty oath must affirm support of the constitution of the United States and of Massachusetts. He must also promise to "faithfully discharge the duties of the position," a clause which the professors believe to be dangerously vague...

Author: By Ann Peck, | Title: Repeal of State Teachers' Oath Asked | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...came from Press Secretary Bill Moyers, who told reporters: "The President in the last few weeks has felt that it was especially appropriate for more leaders of the world to know his views on Asia. This is a continuation of this Government's efforts to state and restate, affirm and reaffirm, clarify and reclarify our position on Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: The Great Peace Teach-in | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Next