Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smith, onetime U.S. ambassador to Moscow, guaranteed that Russian satellites would be a "most fertile field," with some 4,000,000 Soviet radios also within reach, and an average of seven listeners to each set. Russia's frenzied efforts to jam Voice of America broadcasts, he added, were proof of the Voice's effectiveness...
...such decisions as Nehru's lay tangible proof that what the world had been waiting for was U.S. leadership in action-in bold and determined action-against the march of Communism...
...painstakingly recorded the best of their native music, old & new. The project was part of an EGA scheme to show that the artistic and economic recovery of Marshall Plan Europe were humming along at the same tempo. Beginning next week, the U.S. will be able to judge the proof with its own ears. The first of 16 hour-long "Orchestras of the World" programs will go out over some 250 U.S. radio stations (and eventually The Voice of America and leading European stations). Program No. 1 will star an orchestra already familiar to U.S. record fans: the famed Vienna Philharmonic...
...melodrama of your layout, the overweening nature of your analysis (e. g. running the broadcast under head "The Crime"; classifying my proposals as "most of the bad things that could happen to American education . . . run in space usually reserved for proof hacks, errors in grammar," etc) are engagingly representative of the emotive, superficial and desultory thinking that seems to characterize the mind trained at a university operating under your educational philosophy. And this is the mind which quite naturally resents any attempt at discipline or orientation on the part of educated and responsible elders who have had more extensive...
...violated due process of law because; it was too vague, "a 'dragnet' which may enmesh anyone who agitates for a change of government"; it lacked provisions for judicial proof of individual membership in subversive groups; it set up a "presumption of (organizational) guilt"; and the law constituted 'guilt by association' with a vengeance...