Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gamy Gamut. Unlike soap opera, the average confession story runs a gamy gamut of misadventure and misfortune whose-Boccaccian detail is tempered only by the bowdlerized prose of Hollywood. A bastard is a "sin child" or "living proof," adultery is "cheating." But in the end, every Wedding-Ring Dodger and Faithless Mate, however devious, rises above the blighted past ("Is he remembering her when he kisses me?") and, overcoming the doom-fraught future ("A lifetime of not knowing"), concludes his or her chronicle on a hopeful note. "Sure, we're Pollyanna," shrugs Nina Dorrance, young (35) editor of superslick...
...study: of 200 lung-cancer patients, 95.5% had smoked at least a pack a day for at least 20 years, and only one was a nonsmoker; among noncancer patients, only 50% smoked so much, and 11% were nonsmokers. The evidence was highly suggestive, but it fell short of proof that there was anything in cigarette smoke to cause cancer. Graham and Wynder (now of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute) went to work again. With tar from machine-smoked cigarettes they produced cancers on the backs of mice. In 1951 Dr. Graham quit smoking. That same year he retired...
...competitors, not the clock. Since his teen-age days in Dublin's Catholic University School he has been content to jog along just fast enough to win. His better than four-minute victory in the 1,500-meter Olympic run in Melbourne last fall gave him all the proof he cares to have that he can go as fast...
...heard about the series. They called Norma Lee-with embellishments -"nigger-lover," "sewer rat," "D.P.," "Communist," "garbage picker," threatened her with fates ranging from poisoning via "Southern-fried chicken in arsenic" to dismemberment at the hands of "us woman folks." To Editor Kennedy such letters were vivid proof that he had hold of a good story. At week's end he ordered Norma Lee to brave the mountain menace for six more installments...
...last month of the campaign alone, Pibul made 150 speeches for his Seri-Manangasila (Free Stone Seat) Party, including a few on TV.* And as proof of his new convictions, he turned over to the police his treasured copy of The Technique of the Coup d'Etat...