Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brimstone & Hysteria. There was plenty to reform. The hill people are fond of a local liquor that approaches 200-proof, and their disregard for God's commandment against adultery makes Hollywood seem puritanical. Incest is common. "I know dozens of cousins who are living together," Jessie Hyde said recently. "I know men who stay with their aunts and girls who stay with their uncles...
...used to have three institutions at the Academy," said a Navy commander. "Billy goat, Tecumseh and 'Spike' Webb. Now we have only two." Unfortunately, the Navy can do little about its loss. Tecumseh's bronze hide is still proof against the weather and the pranks of midshipmen. Replacing a billy goat is not too difficult, even at Annapolis. But time is beginning to catch up with Spike, the bald and bandy-legged little boxing coach who taught generations of officers and gentlemen to box. He has turned 65, and the rules of the Naval Academy have forced...
Double Life. For Tassmen the Australian operation was routine, but for Western newsmen it was added proof of the fact that Tass correspondents are Red agents rather than legitimate reporters. In The Netherlands and Canada, Tass correspondents have actually been found spying (TIME, Jan. 5, 1953). All Tass correspondents, in every country of the world, Petrov testified, act as MVD agents...
...cases. His] knowledge and understanding of Communism were sparse." Nevertheless, McCarthy has been able to build up the myth that he has "stopped Communism in America." Happy Headlines. To show that McCarthy "is still hammering out accusations of treason and espionage in Government . . . but . . . has come up with no proof," Woltman cited some of McCarthy's charges and investigations: - In regard to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Senator told the press a year ago that a Communist Party member had access to CIA secrets, and commented darkly: "An extremely bad situation." Said Woltman: "Evidently it wasn...
...Proof. In Somerville, N.J., after allowing his younger brother to run him down with an automobile, Paul Barnes, 34, told police: "What could I do, show him I was yellow...