Word: attested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medical technology [Oct. 7] left me ill at ease. The description of the various technological innovations reflected the undying faith of modern man in the science he has created and its presumed efficacy for all fields of human endeavor. Yet, as any man of science would attest, there is a vast difference between faith and knowledge. I suggest that some caution be exercised in the evaluation of the potentialities of the "new technologies of medicine...
...delighted with your report on Bank Street College [Oct. 7]. A '64 graduate of the college, I am currently working with deprived youngsters in Project Head Start, and can attest to the success of the theory of "learning to learn" before teaching others...
...have had the most dazzling of Hollywood careers, but-as any late, late television watcher can attest -it was certainly durable. In the course of 50 movies, Ronald Wilson Reagan almost invariably played the grinning gallant, the fall guy who winds up heartbroken, dead broke or plain dead. In King's Row, he lost his legs; in Santa Fe Trail and Dark Victory, bigger stars got the girl. In Hellcats of the Navy, he wound up taking a submarine on a suicidal mission; as George Gipp in Knute Rockne-All American, he expired exhorting the team to greater glory...
...change. There is great excitement and satisfaction in devising, testing and helping to implement projects which may make the difference between jail aind freedom for thousands of people or which may result in reducing the frightful burden crime imposes on both the victims and the offenders. I can personally attest that the intellectual demands of the problems in this field are no less challenging -- and are perhaps even more frustrating -- than fighting one's way through the reorganization provisions of the Internal Revenue Code or Article IX of the Uniform Commercial Code...
...more memorable space probes of the Johnson Administration," the President continued, he would find "a zone of political tranquillity" in the U.S.-"except in election years." But the political wars, said Johnson, are waged with words, and "as a veteran of twelve years in the U.S. Senate, I happily attest that they do not kill...