Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years that there are differences between the metabolism of schizophrenics and that of normal people, and some of these elusive differences show up in the blood. The trouble has been that when one group of researchers has reported a detectable difference, other groups have not been able to confirm...
...Vatican recognition of Poland's right to the former German provinces that were incorporated in Poland after World War II. Every Pole-Communist or Catholic-favors permanent recognition by the Vatican in terms of church administration for three new dioceses in the west, which would be a powerful confirmation of Poland's right to the area; Wyszynski himself enhanced his prestige immeasurably at home when he broke the Vatican rules to confirm the appointments of vicars made by the Communist government while he was imprisoned. Vatican policy was not to make any such appointments until a peace treaty...
...story said that the senior pleaded not guilty to charges of possession of the drug, and was given a continuance after he said that he was about to take his final exams. The CRIMSON was unable to confirm the Record report last night...
...strategist for the presidential campaigns of Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower; he was the hotel-suite mastermind who liked to note that he had never spent so much as a night on a campaign train. Politician Brownell was treated like one of the boys when he came up for confirmation by the politicians of the U.S. Senate. They went through the motions of asking him questions at his hearing. Had he retired from his private business? Yes. Was his name gone from the door of his law office? Yes. yes. What had he done with his holdings? He had converted...
...there would be no place for him or any king in the Arab "nation" Nasser talked about. Nor could Saud abide the sight of Communist influence that Nasser had brought into the Middle East. Saud's visit to the U.S. last February did not so much convert as confirm him in his attitude. As soon as King Hussein proved ready to stand up for himself, Saud invited him to Riyadh and gave him money, arms and solid diplomatic support...