Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week furnished convincing proof that President Eisenhower's appeals and John Foster Dulles' sturdy testimony on foreign aid have taken root. By a 12-3 vote (Democrats Wayne Morse and Russell Long, Republican William Langer) the committee approved an authorization bill that sliced off only $227 million of the $3.8 billion Ike had requested for military and economic aid. But more than that, the influential Foreign Relations Committee chalked up a far-reaching first. For the first time in the ten years of foreign aid, it approved-in principle-the President...
Watching the hue and cry that swept over West Germany after the incident, the Parisian newspaper Le Monde gloomily saw the accident as new proof of the power of command over Germans: "Command is still the absolute master. Once this command led to crime, today to suicide. It is strange to see how a people can rely so blindly on those who give it orders. Poor Germans...
Actress Tallulah Banlchead switched to philosophy, found it so smooth that she fashioned a 120 proof pousse-café for readers of Esquire: On Elvis: "I hear that he's good to his mother and father, and I don't think for one moment that he's conscious of what he's doing." On sex: "We have it on the brain too much. That's no place for it." On the deity: "My own belief is actually very simple. I believe that if there isn't but one God, there...
French scientists have not yet agreed about the validity of duck metamorphosis. To clinch the proof, Professor Benoit and Father Leroy are injecting 16 more ducklings with DNA. Their Blanche-neige ducks laid 27 eggs, which have now hatched. When they grow up, the world will learn whether DNA-induced changes can be transmitted to the second generation...
...goes for more than an hour and a half-proof positive, in CinemaScope and rosy Technicolor, that in the movies no less than in geometry, the triangle is the most stable of figures, a straight line the shortest distance 'twixt two points...