Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walked into Hartford's Hotel America, ready to confirm reservations for up to 200 rooms that he would need by the end of the week, and found there were none. There had been a mixup, perhaps because of a rumored "collection problem." Keeping calm, he telephoned Humphrey's Washington headquarters. "Get John Bailey," he was told. The former Democratic National Committee chairman was out. Murphy and an aide solved the hotel dilemma with a $5,000 check. Bailey appeared and provided him with a secretary, typists and a driver. Murphy set up his headquarters in the hotel, where...
...When an epidemiologist begins to mine a mountain of case histories, death certificates and related data, he can be virtually sure to find: 1) evidence tending to confirm well-established theories, and 2) something totally unexpected. That is exactly what happened to Statistician E. Cuyler Hammond when he dug into the records of 352,000 men and 440,000 women enrolled nine years ago in the American Cancer Society's long-range epidemiological study...
...styles are not empirically defined, and are more the result of the judicious impressions of his workers in the field. Indeed, the book falters most noticeably when Wilson attempts to use selected tables of arrest statistics to bolster his argument on the styles. The statistics do tend to confirm that the styles exist, but they also lead him into tiresome digressions to explain anomalies in certain of the tables...
Palace officials refused to confirm that the sixpence the viscount was proudly clutching had come from a good fairy in honor of the two front teeth he had lost during the vacation...
...called nihilism of this student movement, about our alleged love of rebellion for its own sake, about the pleasure we supposedly derive from the very act of disruption. But if that is all you see, then you have a problem of perception. Such blind condemnation can only confirm the already prevalent suspicion that somehow you can't or won't listen to what we have been trying to say--that, come what may, you won't be stirred from your business-asusual complacency. If our generation in general, and the movement in particular, have to be described in a word...