Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find Dr. Oppenheimer is not entitled to the continued confidence of the Government and of this commission because of the proof of fundamental defects in his 'character' . . . The record shows that Dr. Oppenheimer has consistently placed himself outside the rules which govern others. He has falsified in matters wherein he was charged with grave responsibilities in the national interest...
...obscure rendezvous; Sunde's sister-in-law and a friend acknowledged that he had asked them for their passports. But after two weeks of testimony, Sunde perked up and announced cockily: "I've been playing with the police, but now I'm tired. The only proof involves passports and false police identity cards. I can tell the court where the papers are." If Sunde could produce the documents he was supposed to have given away to the Russians, the government's case would collapse. Cops were dispatched to Sunde's home. Sure enough...
...diggers made no announcement. Like most anthropologists, they had been intimidated by the recent British proof that the remains of Piltdown man, reputedly 950,000 years old, were a deliberate fake. They did not want to say anything until the bones, which had been sent to Anthropologist T. Dale Stewart of the U.S. National Museum at Washington, had been scientifically authenticated...
...Fluorine Proof. Last week they got the news. Dr. Stewart had fitted about 60 of the fragments into part of a skull, and he was convinced that it is extremely old for a relic of New World man. Dr. F. J. McClure of the National Institute of Health analyzed both animal and human bones for their fluorine content, which increases with age. He decided that their age is about the same. Since the animals lived in the Pleistocene (glacial) era, "Midland man" must be Pleistocene too. He may have lived anywhere from 2,000 to 10,000 years before Folsom...
...hope: that free of the need to take public positions, they might hammer out some agreement on atomic disarmament. With the support of the U.S. and Canada, Britain and France proposed: 1) a ban on the use of nuclear weapons "except in defense against aggression," followed by 2) fool proof international control and inspection, 3) step-by-step disarmament...