Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since World War II, coalition had been the remedy prescribed most often for the West's big problems. Now it proved cumbersome when it had to treat with "local issues," like Trieste, Suez, the Saar. Korea was proof that multinational commands lead not to unity but to dissension, and the lesson learned there is that adding weak links to a chain does not strengthen it. Increasingly, the trend is for individual nations to go their own way, consulting their friends but not being bound by them...
...much even the backwoods balladists of North America knew, and any English major can recite the rest of the awful truth: the great Romantic poet was a no-proof lush and a sexsmith who took all womanhood for his forge. For love of him, a titled lady stabbed herself with a pair of scissors, and for hate, a cast-off mistress had him burned in effigy. Even his half-sister succumbed to his wiles...
...woman promptly produced a fistful of bank notes and waved them aloft. "Here' is my proof," she yelled. "These 10,000 People's dollars, which the Communists paid me to come here and denounce our priests!" Then the police closed...
Lightened Load. The new machines are clear proof of Harvester's confidence that the farm-equipment market, transformed by the shift from men and horses to machines, is still far from filled...
...drawing board last week in the Chicago Sun-Times (circ. 544,784), Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Jacob Burck, 49, was going over the proofs of a cartoon for next day's paper. It showed the grasping hand of Soviet power being squeezed open by rebellious satellite citizens as they desperately tried to escape (title: "Losing His Grip?"). Just as he was finishing with the proof, the phone rang. On the line was a reporter from the rival Chicago Daily News. He told Burck that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service had just ordered him deported on the grounds that...