Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skid proof Streets. Roads and driveways can be skidproofed with a liquid resin binder developed by Shell Chemical Corp. and Reliance Products Co. Relcote is applied like any enamel paint, also protects roadbed from freezing, thawing and salts. Cost: $2.50 to $8.00 per sq. yd., depending on road surfaces...
This bold offensive in the state's three major cities was worked out over months of secret meetings in restaurants and hotels, was designed to take the heat off any single board. In large part, the decision stemmed from self-interest. North Carolina attorneys feared that without any proof of integration the U.S. courts (as they did in Virginia) would strike down the state's 1955 law, making local boards responsible for assigning pupils to schools as a subterfuge for maintaining segregation. Moreover, state schoolmen felt that North Carolinians would accept do-it-yourself integration more readily than...
...Proof. The news struck through the Deep South and into Capitol Hill, where beleaguered Senators were worrying the matter of jury trials under the civil rights bill. Many Southerners pointed to the guilty verdict as ample proof that white Southern juries can be depended upon to deal out justice in cases involving the race issue. From opponents came the reply that the Clinton case was no real test, because East Tennessee is traditionally Republican border country, was mostly Yankee in the Civil War, and has relatively few Negroes. In fact, the verdict proved only one thing: when a case...
...year and no leader of his Stalin Prizewinning stature in sight, the leftist Socialists approved Nenni's handwritten resolution, 59 to 13. This proves, said Nenni, that the "Socialist Party is completely separated from the Communists." Almost everyone else in Italy was willing to wait for more conclusive proof...
...Europe that ended last week, Democrat Dilworth wrote a series of mayor's-eye-view stories for the Inquirer that found a moral for the home folks almost every place he visited. Describing the rebuilt sections of West Berlin, for example, Yaleman Dilworth said they offer "conclusive proof of how essential it is to the health and well-being of a large city to have ample, well-planned open space." In Norway he was impressed by the complete absence of slums, the "extraordinary" beauty of Oslo's city hall, the "extremely attractive small public beaches," the "profusion...