Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world witnessed the most dramatic proof yet of a remarkable change in U.S. policy in Korea. The U.S. now seemed prepared to fight a MacArthur war, instead of the cautious war once advocated by Dean Acheson and George Marshall...
...Herring. In February 1950, Senator McCarthy made a speech at Wheeling, W.Va., in which he charged-without proof then or thereafter-that Dean Acheson knew of 205 Communists working in the State Department. It was not much of a speech, and McCarthy at that time was not a well known senator. Yet subsequent, and inconsistent, reiterations of that speech led to headlines throughout the nation. More significantly, McCarthy began to draw the intense interest of millions of Americans. Joe had stumbled onto something big. He is no man to let go of a political asset...
Geneva. At a U.N. Economic and Social Council meeting, Czech Delegate Arnost Tauber objected bitterly to the balloons, called them "further proof of subversive activities by the U.S. Government." Said Crusader Stassen: "We tore a big hole in the Iron Curtain...
...they could build first-rate jets. In 1947, the first really topnotch Russian fighter, the jet MIG-15, appeared. It had a high rooster-like tail, a barrel-like fuselage, and an ancient radio antenna jutting out into the slip stream. But it had swept-back wings, quick visual proof that the Russians and their German experts had been delving deep into transsonic research. It was light and maneuverable and powered by the best existing jet engine, the Rolls-Royce Nene, which the British government sold to Russia...
David and Bathsheba (20th Century-Fox), apparently inspired by the phenomenal box-office take ($11 million in its first year) of Samson and Delilah, sends Hollywood back to the Bible for another censor-proof tale of a strong man's weakness for a beautiful woman. Like the Cecil B. DeMille opus, the new epic is a Technicolored potion concocted from equal parts of sex, spectacle and religion. But Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's mixture, neither so rich nor so heady as its predecessor, comes dangerously close to serving as a sleeping potion...