Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These unpleasant experiments have already brought practical results. Proof that a person facing backward is more likely to survive an airplane crash than one facing forward supported only by a body-cutting belt has convinced the Military Air Transport Service that it should turn its seats around. Some British Commonwealth airliners have already made the change. They have had several crashes, from which all the backward-facing passengers have walked away unhurt...
...Gold Coasters revere as "The Man," was summoned before a tribunal investigating malfeasance and graft. Scandal swirled around members of his Cabinet, and Nkrumah himself was hurt by it. From all over Africa came the mutters of hostile voices: "We told you so." The Blimps saw the scandal as proof that nature never intended that black men should govern themselves. Communists were delighted, for in the Gold Coast's troubles they saw an opportunity to discredit this best example of white colonialism peaceably surrendering sovereignty to Africans...
...streets of East Berlin, a camera shutter caught for posterity the proof that man of 1953, on city streets and against the odds, would risk everything for freedom: two brave youths fought off Soviet army tanks with stones. It was June 17-the day East Germans rose up against their Communist oppressors across their barbed-wire land, the day that showed that the Red monolith might some day crack...
...operating room itself, walled in apple-green glass tile, is soundproof, dustproof, conditioned by gravity-fed air, and as nearly germproof and explosion-proof as human ingenuity can make it. Above the operating table, which can be tilted six ways, is a television camera (nested in a battery of lights) with lenses for closeup, normal and wide-view shots. The surgeons, anesthesiologist and physiologist wear combination stethoscope-intercom receivers...
...would have scorned: three scientists, all Ph.D.s, have been hired to ride herd as technical advisers. The publishers feel they are necessary, and they are probably right. Readers of the old series were content with plenty of action and took Author Appleton's say-so for proof that Tom was an inventive genius. Today's schoolboy savants want the incredible, but they want it backed by a patter of scientific know-how. And of course the dialogue has changed. The Tom of 1910 put real enthusiasm into "Now, dad, you'll see me scooting around the country...