Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Round Table. Confronted by positive proof that time was running out. what could the U.S. do? One possible course of action was quickly suggested at the United Nations by U.S. delegate Alexander Wiley, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. New soundings should be taken, he said, on the chances of negotiating a workable scheme of international atomic control with the Russians. Wiley's proposal merited cool-headed consideration. One reason: no one has yet disproved the theory that the Russians, faced with imminent cracks behind their Iron Curtain, may be looking for a long cold-war breathing spell...
Housewives in six New England states were surprised last month to meet a new breed of bill collector-Internal Revenue Service agents, who traveled from door to door with a sometimes embarrassing question: Had the occupant paid his federal taxes? If the answer was yes, the canvassers asked for proof-a receipt, return or canceled check. If no evidence was available, the agents took down names & addresses to check against the service's records. If delinquency was admitted, the agents were happy to accept on-the-spot payments. Door-slammers were likely to be visited by another kind...
...Thunderclaps. Another "proof" of the British Israelites' theory has been drawn from the Great Pyramid of Cheops. For centuries busy minds have marked off the passages inside the pyramid in a scale corresponding roughly to the calendar (about one inch representing a year). Certain markings, turns and corners along the passages have been found to correspond with historical events, and were thus used for prophecies. World War I, the Depression and World War II have been recognized on this scale and passed; dead ahead has loomed the most portentous date of all-the date upon which the pyramid...
...this was fair warning that Peking should not expect to escape from a second aggression as easily as it had from the first. To the British Labor Party it was senseless warmongering which the Foreign Office had no right to agree to. This outburst struck the London Economist as proof that the Labor Party is against "any British firmness anywhere (except, of course, in Washington)." But the Tory government hastened to explain that the warning was not really a warning, but only a statement of probabilities...
Armed with his Sc.D. from Harvard (he has no M.D.), Kinsey joined the Indiana faculty. But a classroom could not hold him. He was forever searching scrub oaks for gall wasps, which fascinated him as living proof that evolution is still going on. When he had collected thousands of specimens in southern Indiana and recorded 28 microscopic measurements of each in a growing pile of statistics, Kinsey had to go farther and farther afield. Eventually he logged 80,000 miles of travel (much of it with Mrs. Kinsey and the children along as helpers) and 3,500,000 gall wasps...