Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unhappiness, when it masks itself with humanistic phraseology, does not, in spite of appearances, become more effective in the long run. At a certain moment, its facade turns against it because it was always alien to it." But, he adds, "in the larger view, the increase of hypocrisy is proof of moral progress because it testifies that what was done formerly outspokenly without fear of being compromised cannot be carried out today without that risk...
...Years of proof must pass by," said President Franklin Roosevelt in August 1944, "before we can trust Japan and before we can classify her as a member of the society of nations which seeks permanent peace." Last week, with the sponsorship and all-out backing of U.S. Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, Japan became the first former Axis nation elected to the U.N. Security Council...
...most interesting out-of-class activities is the distilling of an occasional bottle of "mountain dew," the proof of which he scientifically measures on a chart of specific gravities. Then, by a slightly less scientivc, but equally effective, method he correlates the specific gravity to the proper proof. His own favorite is specific gravity .932 (102 proof), although occasionally a .930-specific-gravity (104 proof) batch will be accepted...
Repudiating any thought of "bargaining" over Tunisia's loyalty to the West, Bourguiba said in his weekly radio broadcast: "The best proof that we did not want to depart from our position of wisdom is that even when our arms crisis was most acute, we negotiated with a Czech economic mission and did not even raise the question of arms." As for the "small quantity" of Egyptian arms, Bourguiba blandly said: "We accepted them as a fraternal gesture. The Egyptian offer helped us by its timeliness, but we know that Egypt herself is seeking arms for her own needs...
Alec Guiness plays a shy and quiet impoverished chemist who invents an indestructible and soil-proof fabric on the sly and manages to cause no small furor in the ranks of British industry and labor, as they try to suppress the invention, the first fearful of depleting the business, the second of losing their jobs. Under all the comic routine is couched quite a powerful satire of the illogical complexities of the modern economy, quite beyond the good will of the participants. Mr. Guiness is at at his very best, never overplaying but by quietly alternating shy smiles...