Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polls Oct. 10 and decide whether or not he should remain in power. The election call came astonishingly soon after the President's June coup against the pro-Red regime of Jacobo Arbenz. But the terms of Castillo Armas' decrees made the election practically defeat-proof...
...President, he set all sorts of standards to which Americans have ever since repaired. When Bushrod Washington, 27, wrote calmly asking appointment as U.S. district attorney for Virginia, his uncle wrote sternly: "My political conduct in nominations, even if I was uninfluenced by principle, must be exceedingly circumspect and proof against just criticism, for the eyes of Argus are upon...
...mother of two ... I have watched magazine after magazine plug one psychiatric view after another on child behavior-all, as Dr. Hilde Bruch points out [TIME, Aug. 30], without any scientific proof whatsoever . . . As the result, parents are in total confusion . . . Scout leaders report behavior in ten-and twelve-year-olds that usually was relegated to the nursery-school level. But discipline? Ah, that's a dirty word and used only to describe the old Prussian army . . . But the greatest loss of all has been good, old-fashioned common sense. Without this, the genius becomes stupid in society...
...from Asia and Germany (TIME, Sept. 6). He, in turn, had urged Mao to do what he could to curb the rampant militarism and intolerance that he had noticed in Soviet Russia, "the most heavily armed country in the world." Attlee cited this exchange as if it were proof of his standing up to the Reds, whereas the net impression of Attlee's remarks seemed to be that all of Mao's bellicose accusations against the U.S. were unfortunately true, but American misbehavior was offset somewhat by Russia's militance and bad manners...
...fishermen hauled out 7,500,000 fish worth $2 each, expected to land another 2,500,000, v. last year's total catch of 4,000,000. It was the biggest haul of Fraser sockeye since 1913's alltime record of 30 million. It was also spectacular proof of the success of the Northwest's fish restoration program...