Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long run, Chicago's apathetic voters would take the licking. In the January primary they would merely be called upon to confirm the bosses' selections, as they had in 1943. Then, on election day in April, they would only decide which machine would run the city...
After weeks of mulling over the biggest vacancy in his diplomatic corps-the ambassadorship to Britain-Harry Truman made up his mind. The man he picked for the job: conservative, 64-year-old O. (for Oliver) Max Gardner, a safe, uncolorful candidate whom the Senate was likely to confirm with little or no fuss...
Former chapter chairman Richard G. Axt '47 declared, on the other hand, that there were "no valid grounds for failing to support National since, in the words of Charles Bolte, 'those statements merely confirm and make explicit what has always been implicit in ... the Preamble to our Constitution: that subservience to the principles of conspiratorial and undemocratic organizations is utterly incompatible with membership...
...utterly loathsome picture. If I spoke as I feel I would call it obscene.... I only hope to God it isn't reprinted in Russia-to confirm everything the Soviet Government has been telling the Russian people. How would it seem in Hiroshima or Nagasaki to know that Americans make cakes of angel-food puffs in the image of that terrible diabolical thing. . . . Try to imagine yourself for a moment a continental European, wondering, brooding, asking yourself a hundred times a day, will America lead us? ... Then imagine yourself being shown this picture. If I had the authority...
Molotov agreed that the governor have the power to confirm the director of police nominated by the council of government, and the right to suggest his removal...