Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quick Action. Lawyer Poliakoff, a suave and brisk young man, stopped the first five citizens he met and asked each two questions: "Where is Mt. Hebron Cemetery?" "Who is General Morgan?" All knew the answer to the first question; none could answer the second. This, said Poliakoff, was proof that Winchester was not giving General Morgan his proper due. "In Spartanburg County," he said, "you can ask any school child who General Morgan is, and he'll tell you his whole story. Infancy to adulthood, we study him. Sir, he's our hero...
...broke with the party, was soon denouncing Autentico officeholders as crooks and plunderers on his Sunday-night radio broadcasts. Cubans listened in fascination as Chibás assailed government graft and embezzlement. But he could never make his hottest accusations stick. For Chibás, the futile search for proof has been bitterly frustrating. "People don't believe me any more," he said recently...
...battle history of the 24th gave solid proof of the military wisdom of Ridgway's order. The 24th, all-Negro (except for officers) since its creation in 1869, stormed up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. In Korea, under a mixture of white and Negro officers, it produced individual heroes (including a Medal of Honor winner), and it routed the North Koreans at Yechon in the first days of the war. But its Korea battle record was spotty; Negro troops in mixed units did better in combat...
Adenauer has wisely entrusted his embryonic defense ministry to a sober, militarism-proof trade-unionist, Theodor Blank. Blank's top experts, Generals Adolf Heusinger and Hans Speidel, have anti-Nazi records, though they also had brilliant military careers...
...fact is that the honorable teacher has a creed, and cannot, if he tries, withhold its influence...The rightful freedom of minds, the maxims of logic and experimental proof, of intellectual honesty, of tolerance and persuasion, are themselves values. Together with all their personal and social implications they constitute a body of indoctrination to which no objection can consistently be raised. Here, I believe, is the reconciliation of the teacher's scruples with moral and political education. Let him look to the ground on which he repudiates indoctrination. If he is against it, it is because, fundamentally...