Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), confessed spy David Greenglass, who worked as a machine-shop foreman at Los Alamos, described sketchily the mechanism of the A-bomb used at Nagasaki. His testimony was not transcribed. But it was not suppressed entirely. The spies on trial could not be convicted without proof that they had given real and vital secrets to the Russians...
Ewing and Press had long believed that disturbances in the air cause waves in the land and sea. In search of proof, they selected as a "laboratory test" the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, whose mighty bang sent air waves seven times round the earth. One chapter in a fat report by Britain's Royal Society recorded the progress of the volcano's air wave. Another clocked the sea wave, which swept across the Indian Ocean and was measured by tidal gauges as far away as Britain. Oddly enough, both waves were reported in many distant places, including the English...
...they arrive together? Further study of the records showed that only the air wave could be a direct effect of the volcano's explosion. In distant places like England, the sea wave recorded on the tide gauges must have been "induced" by the air disturbance. Here was dramatic proof that events in the atmosphere do affect the sea below...
...plants his diet tips ("I put a halt to salt"), generously allows his readers to balance their calories over three-day periods so they have time to do penance for bursts of overindulgence. Instead of frowning on high-calorie alcohol, Elmer simply warns against sweet mixes' and high-proof liquor ("for every proof add a calorie"). Those who can't keep count of drinks should pocket a match with every drink, count the toll next morning...
...boss of the dockers. Last week Australia's efforts to cope with Communism received a heavy blow when the High Court voided a 1950 law outlawing the Communist Party and giving the government power to "declare" union officials and government workers Communists. The law placed the burden of proof on the "declared" individual, who would have to show that he was not a Communist. In defending the law, Liberal Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies had said: "We are not dealing with the ordinary Australian citizen who is entitled to be treated with all the delicacies...