Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the 526th AAA Missile Battalion installed batteries of Nike-Ajax missiles in northern New Jersey three years ago, the Army carefully explained that the 21-ft. TNT and shrapnel projectiles were virtually accident-proof. A missile battery, said the Army, was no more dangerous a neighbor than a gas station. Last week the gas-station blew up. Installing a trigger modification on one of the 526th B Battery Nikes near Leonardo, N.J., ordnance technicians accidentally detonated the missile. Explosion and flame touched off seven more Nikes squatting on adjacent pads, blew or burned ten men to death, showered...
...jobless had dropped to 5,120,000, down 78,000 from the month before. It was the first drop since October, though less than seasonal. The Federal Reserve Board reported that department-store sales for the week ending April 25 were 4% above the same week last year -proof that the consumer has by no means lost his will...
Rafton says he is an atheist because he holds that arguments for God require proof. He feels that no adequate proof of the existence of God has ever been advanced...
People who doubt that heavy cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer have argued that there could be no real proof until comparison was made between groups of smokers and nonsmokers who are identical in all other major respects. Some have insisted that the villain in the lung-cancer picture is industrial air pollution. This week, under Los Angeles' smoggy pall, researchers reported on a study designed to refute both arguments...
Young Wife: "Do you want better proof than...