Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often amused when sports people get nervous about having a feminine reporter around. Some hockey public relations men tried to keep her away from the players "because their language is so terrible and these men would be embarrassed to have a girl hear it." She heard enough to confirm the point: the players' language is terrible. Key man on our Sport team is Charles Parmiter, who has been writing the section since 1961 and whose application of talent to subject matches the intensity of Bobby Hull devoting himself to hockey...
...exercises. Even joggers can ask for trouble. "The distance some of them go scares me," says Dr. Richard Morrison, who presides over a heart-conditioning program for West Coast executives. "Long distances can make your knees arthritic or give you shin splints." Recent studies at the University of Saskatchewan confirm earlier suspicions that some of the so-called isometric exercises can impose dangerous demands on the heart...
...finding a happier home in the U.S. Boutiques carrying Courreges frocks at prices ranging from $200 to $500 have opened to sensational applause at Sakowitz Bros, in Houston and Bonwit Teller in New York. Bonwit's peddled 150 outfits the first day, leading Andre to confirm that he will spend six months a year in the U.S. "The American way of thinking," he noted, "corresponds...
...pulses to return to earth. This data will enable them to determine the distance from earth to a fixed point on the moon with an accuracy of 6 in., measurements that should enable scientists to learn the precise size of the moon, to analyze its motions, to confirm continental drift on the earth, and perhaps even to learn if the universe's gravitational constant is changing...
...reporting the Prime Minister's suit against the International Herald Tribune, British newspapers were compelled to be even more oblique. All the Daily Telegraph felt able to say, for example, was that the "Prime Minister's solicitors confirm that, when in New York on other matters," Wilson's counsel, Lord Goodman, "agreed to attend a meeting of lawyers to discuss the possibility of disposing by agreed settlement the serious legal complaint made by the Prime Minister against an international publication...