Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burden of Proof. In Warsaw, after a special court was opened to provide quick hearings on arrests for fighting and drunkenness, one of the first cases, involving two men nabbed in a brawl, was postponed because witnesses were too drunk to testify...
Habib Bourguiba told his Constituent Assembly: "We have the proof that our disagreement with the U.A.R. is more than a simple misunderstanding." In Cairo lives the exiled Salah ben Youssef, who once fought alongside Bourguiba in the battle for Tunisian independence. Ben Youssef, says Bourguiba, has made seven attempts to kill him, has organized a private army in southern Tunisia to snipe at Bourguiba's soldiers. Bourguiba now has evidence, he went on, that Nasser's government was egging on Ben Youssef's conspiracy...
Hammerhead. Trouble is that bourbon faces sharp competition in the battle of straight whiskies against blends, which took over the wartime market. Drinkers acquired a preference for the milder blends against the headhammering effect of 100-proof straight bourbon. To recoup, ; distillers have been lightening bourbon toward the minimum allowable 80 proof, which also cuts the excise tax and lowers retail prices. Such leading brands as Schenley's I.W. Harper, National Distillers' Old Crow and Old Grand-Dad, now come in 86 proof, one reason for the rise of straight whiskies from 9% of the total market...
...census figures provide wholesale proof of a mushrooming demand for knowledge in gerontology and for the services of geriatricians. In 1900 the life expectancy of a U.S. male at birth was 49 years, and there were only 374,000 Americans aged 80 and over-one in 200 population. Now it is estimated that there are nearly 2,300,000, or almost three in 200 population; nearly 1,300,000 are women, slightly fewer than 1,000,000 are men. Projecting present trends in death rates, the National Office of Vital Statistics predicts that by 1980 there will...
...believes that the credit structure is earthquake proof. If the downturn had lasted six months longer, it might have shaken down many of the props that held up the credit structure...