Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the U.S. was close to World War III, but it did mean that it was very close to the enemy in the Far East. In the end, the U.S. would not permit an enemy to control those coasts. A woman in Grand Rapids had lost two husbands in proof of that proposition...
...British wanted any more positive proof of the contempt in which they are held at the present time by the Chinese Communists, the shooting of the airliner over the China Sea [TIME, Aug. 2] is it . . . To those of us who have watched the cowardly retreat of the great powers in the Orient during the past seven years, this shooting came as no surprise immediately after the Geneva Conference . . . If the British do not retaliate in kind next time they are attacked, there will be many more shootings . . . I have seen the show in China, Korea, Japan and the Philippines...
...that flickered over Hirohito's bespectacled face gave no indication that he was anything but pleased at the democratic display. The celestial mystique that Japan's U.S. -dictated Constitution sought to destroy had been replaced by a new mystique; Hirohito's 18-day tour was dramatic proof of the change. Too Human. Some Japanese conservatives today would like to restore the old imperial symbolism and put Hirohito behind a bamboo screen like his great-grandfather Komei, who used to sit hidden, with only his bony knees and frail legs showing when he conferred with members...
Washington's first "atom-bomb-proof" building is nearing completion just five miles north of the White House. Surprisingly, it is neither an Air Defense Command center nor a refuge for the President and his staff,* but a new laboratory for the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, designed to preserve the nation's vital file of military medical knowledge (e.g., 656,000 individual specimens, 6,000,000 pathological slides) and enable scientists to carry on their work despite atomic attack...
...killed by its enemies; but at Brussels it was EDC's friends who preferred to see it killed rather than emasculated. In its death struggle, EDC provided one unforeseen consolation. By forcing five sovereign governments to stand up and defend its supranational clauses, EDC, in death, had given proof of the life that was in the ideal. Mendés the realist, with his ability to weigh facts, apparently had not known how to measure the strength of an ideal...