Word: affirmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compared the agitators with "the Nazi students whom I saw in the 1930s harassing deans, hounding professors and their families." The senate finally voted 795 to 28 to deplore the use of external police "except in extreme emergency" but to urge an immediate end of the strike and "to affirm our confidence in the chancellor's leadership...
...from dissolving doubts, the Report and the ensuing debate have magnified them. One Commission member, Senator Russell, and one key witness, Governor Connally, have publicly joined the ranks of the doubters. The theory behind the Report's conclusions, they affirm, is implausible given the evidence available. All that can be said now for the Report is that no concrete evidence points to the existence of a second sniper; but neither has any internally consistent theory yet been presented to explain how Oswald alone killed Kennedy...
...Pike is not the only prophet crying out for the church to restate, reshape, renew. "Now is the time to renew, while there are still people in the church to renew with," he exhorts. "This is no time for fastidiousness, but one for boldness of stating what we can affirm and joyousness in acting it out. The church must speak to and act in the world...
...school texts, and gentle lives of Jesus for six-year-olds. Standing out in this array like a miniskirt at a church social is motive, a monthly magazine aimed at Christian college students in general and Methodist ones in particular. As most of its 40,000 youthful readers will affirm, motive is probably the most provocatively adventurous church publication in the U.S. today...
Unless Negroes understand their own history, and actively affirm their own race and their black nationality, they will always be trying unconsciously to deny it, Palmer believes. They will never lose, he says, a sense of shame in being black, a feeling of inferiority...