Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geneva, most delegates took Ike's remarks as proof that the U.S. is willing to settle for a Korea-type stalemate-and this was a hard blow at any attempt to negotiate from strength. Whether half a cork was any better than none would depend on whether the Communists, at Geneva or elsewhere, performed their old miracle of driving the anti-Communist nations together again. Even more, it depended upon a realistic U.S. appraisal of France as it is today. Unless France changes basically, it cannot be considered a key factor in any situation-including the defense of France...
Schwable and the Army's famed Major General William F. Dean "attempted it only to have their carefully considered stories completely and quickly refuted by their captors . . . The collapse of Colonel Schwable's moral resistance began . . . with proof of the falsity of his original account. From then on, he was continually on the defensive, and successfully deprived of any element of moral ascendancy...
...Cash Cache" by John Limpert, although a little tedious in spots, shows what a Mosler impregnable, atomic-proof safe can do to the perishable thought of a spring morning. And the "Charles River," Updike's contribution to the frontispiece, cites the popular misconception about springtime joys on the banks of the Charles. He sums up his feeling with: "I'm just a creeping socialist, and you can be sure as shootin' that the next TVA-like project I sponsor will be a dam to head off the Charles at West Newton." Not neglecting baseball, G. E. Vaillant has, written "Dink...
...They further argue that the analogy between security investigations and regular judicial proceeding is false. The government should be given the benefit of the doubt in all loyalty cases, they say, because employment in the Civil Service is a privilege, not a right. For this reason, the burden of proof must rest, not with the government, but with the accused...
...proof that Gregory's micrographs actually showed a virus, let alone one which might be a cause of cancer...