Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beck and Hoffa are proof that the worker is still a peon to the union, and that the politician is far from a true American in allowing him to be exploited...
...causing substance in cigarette tar has not yet been identified, so much is now known about it that smoking could be rendered relatively harmless-without waiting for the substance to be isolated. This reassurance came last week from the man who, since his student days, has been busy amassing proof that heavy, long-continued cigarette smoking is the main cause of the recent dramatic increase in lung cancer: Dr. Ernest L. Wynder, 34, of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute...
...paragraph beginning: "The United States is called a capitalistic country, but it does not have pure capitalism. It has capitalism subject to increasing government control as our manner of living becomes more complex . . ." In 1953 it fired Deputy Superintendent George Ebey, not because it could find any proof that he had once been proCommunist, as one citizen charged, but because he had become "controversial." In the course of an investigation as a result of the Ebey case, the National Education Association reported that hundreds of Houston teachers said they had been subjected to various kinds of political pressure...
...deep into the budget. President Eisenhower addressed himself sharply to that point before the Republican Women's National Conference in Washington last week. He had, he said, been talking to the heads of several great U.S. corporations. Each pointed to his own firm's increased budget as proof that "we are a growing company." Asked Ike: "What do you think America is?" The company heads said their budget hikes ranged from 6% to 10%. Well, said the President, "ours...
...some stationery to an elementary school. A group of boys suddenly surrounded her. Screaming "American, your nose is too high. Baka! [stupid idiot]. You dropped the atomic bomb on us," they threatened to beat her with sticks. Though the boys never carried out this 1954 threat, the incident was proof enough that Fazl Fotouhi had a most delicate educational task ahead...