Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gloucestershire Regiment came home from prison camp in Korea to find his wife Maureen, 23, turned Communist. He had resisted Communist brainwashing for eleven months, but she had been convinced by studying pamphlets mailed her from Russia after her husband's capture, including "photographs of tortured women" and "proof" of U.S. warmongering. Said the sergeant: "Rubbish! I know the Americans. I was with them. They hate war as much...
...died in 1936), Miguel de Unamuno was forever in trouble. A fiery liberal, he was once exiled by Primo de Rivera, accused Alfonso XIII of being "unfit" to govern, attacked the republic and the rebels in turn, was finally dismissed by Franco. Though passionately religious, he could find no proof in logic for the immortality of the soul, felt that the only thing man could do was to "spend your life so that you deserve to be immortal." To some segments of official Spain, Unamuno was a heretic...
...threaten his friend, Painter Paul Gauguin, with a knife (later that evening Van Gogh cut off his own ear to give to a prostitute). Still untouched by disease, the painting presents a cozy, lovely corner of a friendly night, not the troubled night of his later work; it is proof of Van Gogh's contention that "the night is more alive and more richly colored than...
...well-chosen words-probably the longest court opinion ever written -Federal Judge Harold R. Medina last week told why he dismissed the antitrust case against 17 leading investment banking firms. The antitrust laws, he said, require proof of an agreement or conspiracy, something the Government attorneys had not shown. Wrote Medina: "The Sherman Act is not an open door through which any court or judge may pass at will in order to shape or mold the affairs of businessmen according to his own individual notions of sound economic policy . . . Unless there is some agreement, combination or conspiracy the Sherman...
...compulsory sealed bidding by investment bankers for new security issues. Many of those who were later defendants in the case had expressed a preference for negotiated bidding, the traditional method of floating securities. "Incredible as it may seem . . . the . . . replies . . . were offered in evidence by Government counsel as some proof of the existence of the conspiracy . . . Here we are dealing with concededly honest expressions of opinion, in response to an invitation from public officials to state views on an important public question ... If the exercise by American citizens of their constitutional rights in expressing their honest views on public questions...