Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the breakup of the Berlin Conference and renewed proof of Russia's implacable hold on East Germany, the focus of uncertainty in Europe shifted back to Paris-and to the familiar, nagging question: What will the French do about EDC, the European army project? Before leaving Berlin, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault told Secretary Dulles that he hoped to see the legislative gears turning by mid-March and that he hoped for ratification of EDC by mid-April. Not many in France were so optimistic...
...earth is continually growing older in the eyes of geologists; they now think that it is something like 4.5 billion years old. The paleontologists who study ancient life are also finding proof that living organisms are respectably elderly...
Back at his studio in Hertfordshire, Sculptor Moore, now 55, is working on two new pieces, one in wood, the other in stone. Both are proof, he says, that his style has not really changed. They are long, abstract sculptures hollowed out like wombs...
...Howard Fast and Gerald L. K. Smith have been granted permission to speak. Despite attacks from the American Legion and feelings of vague uneasiness, the men in University Hall have allowed advocates of unpopular ideas to be heard. Tonight, the health and vigor of this attitude will receive new proof when Owen Lattimore speaks at the United Nations Council forum at New Lecture Hall...
Britain's top cigarette manufacturers promptly snapped back: "There is no proof." But they did something constructive to help scientists find the proof: they offered $700,000 over seven years to the Medical Research Council for impartial studies...