Word: proof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...security practices have rarely worked out that way. Government job applicants are eventually screened against FBI or the new Central Intelligence Organization's files and the filed material is along the lines of that appearing in the Graham case: proof of membership in organizations that have turned up on the "subversive" lists released by Clark or the Un-American Activities Committee. Being a member in any of these groups is considered adequate grounds for rejection; one young executive of Federal Telephone and Telegraph, a New Jersey firm which turns out considerable material for AEC, was fired when it turned...
...priests was intermittently drowned out by the wailing of black-shawled women. Some of the dead, laid out in open clapboard coffins, had ears hacked off, eyes gouged out. In the ruined hospital, strewn among wrecked operating tables and X-ray machines, were blood-soaked and bullet-riddled mattresses-proof that the sick and wounded had been shot...
Last week, Laurance Rockefeller, who meanwhile had upped the stake of himself and his brothers in McDonnell to $400,000 and one-fifth voting interest, had further proof that his gamble had paid off. In Muroc, Calif., McDonnell gave the public its first look at the Voodoo, a single-seater, twin-engine plane which the Air Force hopes to use as a combination fighter, fighter-bomber or bomber escort...
Getting down to organizing themselves, the delegates proved that they had already learned a good deal about the facts of democratic life. They adroitly outmaneuvered the inevitable leftist clique and elected their officers by pressure-proof secret balloting. Chemist Naoto Kameyama of Tokyo University was chosen president. Second vice president is world-famed Physicist Yoshio Nishina, who wept when U.S. soldiers demolished his cyclotron...
...members ... are relieved by Mr. Goldwyn's withdrawal. During his association with us, he has demonstrated a unique . . . flair for saying one thing and doing exactly the opposite. Mr. Goldwyn's fabulous . . . success ... is irrefutable proof that free enterprise [exists...