Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proof, the white paper offered fac similes of letters allegedly written by two exiled Guatemalan rebels, General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes (now in El Salvador) and Lieut. Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas (in Honduras). Even if authentic, the letters appeared to prove nothing but the well-known fact that both officers would dearly love to oust their enemies in the Arbenz regime...
...sternly suppressed her own personality, she everywhere gives proof of her very personal taste and wit: with a resolute aristocracy of method, she is as much above her characters as she is outside them. If her finest talent is for social comedy, her particular genius is for suggesting a stageful of people, a whole social scene...
...Minn, by Farmer Olof Ohman in 1898, the stone, inscribed in runic characters, tells of a band of Norsemen who wandered to Minnesota in 1362 and presumably died there of Indian-trouble.* Last week Professor (of Germanic languages) Erik Wahlgren of U.C.L.A. pooh-poohed the petrophiles. He had positive proof, he said, that the stone was faked by the late Farmer Ohman...
...Putting aside the question of his wisdom in doing this, can there be any doubt that the claim (of the privilege) is legally proper? Past membership in the Communist Party is not a crime in itself; but admitting such membership may well be a link in a chain of proof of a criminal charge against him... thus. an answer to the question will delicately incriminate him, that is, provide evidence which could be used in a prosecution against...
Tracy believes that "it he was an imposter, he was an unwitting one." For proof he turns to Savage's life long dispute with his supposed mother, his somewhat pitiful accusations of "statutory" infanticide, and his unceasing disposition to bear himself and be known as Richard Savage, natural son of Lord Rivers...