Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whipple said that reports that the object seen in Australia and Alaska varied in light intensity only confirm the theory that the observers saw the third stage of the launching rocket and not the satellite...
...birds, which may force revision of the theory held by many archaeologists that because of Moses' injunction against idolatry ancient Jews shunned imagery. Also unearthed: pottery wine jars (the first found in 67 years of Palestine archaeology), which offer a clue to Palestine's early economy and confirm that the men of Gibeon were not only "hewers of wood and drawers of water" but also drinkers of wine. Since the jars bear the names of wine-making firms (Hananiah, Azariah and Amariah), they also offer scholars one of the largest finds of Hebrew writing of an era some...
...presented to an approving five-man military junta a 22-page document spelling out an agreement designed to give each party an equal share in political power for the next twelve years. The military, in turn, promised that it will step out next year. Next step: a plebiscite to confirm the agreement...
After trying some newspaper-readership statistics on his slide rule, Pollster George Gallup promises for fall publication "the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the American press." For the most part, Gallup's conclusions from interviews with 7,000 readers will only confirm what most editors know about most readers: people like to read about people. But one undeveloped area of reader interest charted in the study is a little-known land to the majority of newsrooms. News of U.S. business, Pollster Gallup's findings suggest, not only deserves more space and prominence than it gets in most...
...process, freedom of speech, jury trial, freedom of the press, fair trial and freedom of worship-have for us all a ringing appeal. And we have a serene confidence that all mankind, when allowed the choice, will claim these invaluable rights. Just yesterday, for example, we observed the Hungarians confirm our faith in the insatiable appetite of all people for freedom-an urge that will brook impossible odds for its satisfaction, proving to the entire world that life without freedom becomes unbearable ... In many parts of this planet men of every color and background are awakening to the immeasurable worth...