Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Suez, jumped all too confusingly from one Suez Canal settlement proposal to another in his unsuccessful attempt to stave off the war. Today Ike has come to realize that in many areas he is his own best diplomatic agent. He regards the success of the Nehru visit as proof of this, and intends to make the most of the Eisenhower Approach during the long procession of foreign digni taries and heads of state to Washington this year. But Ike still regards Foster Dulles as his most valued foreign-policy adviser and confidant...
While President Eisenhower was telling Congress last week that inflation is the nation's top economic worry (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Bureau of Labor Statistics gave some proof of the potential danger. The consumer price index, said BLS, rose in December for the sixth month in the past seven, advancing .2% to a record 118% of the 1947-49 average, a 3.3% increase for the year...
...spectacular proof that them as has gits, full-busted Cinemactress Jayne (The Girl Can't Help It) Mansfield, 24, added to her natural endowments estates totaling some $90,000, the larger part of it a bequest from her late grandpa, who also left $1,000 to maintain the chimes of his Pennsylvania (Methodist) church...
...greatest basketball players in the world. Only a few years ago, pro basketball was a hobo sport that smelled of low-grade locker rooms and considered itself lucky if it weaned fans away from pinball and professional wrestling. Last week's game was lively-and sellout-proof of pro basketball's coming...
...every team in the N.B.A. is making money; for five months of work, players draw salaries that range from a rookie's $4,500 to Bob Cousy's better than $20,000. From California to the East Coast, new towns are eager for franchises. Perhaps the surest proof of the N.B.A.'s success and the caliber of its players is that club owners want to expand their league but cannot find on college courts enough good players to match their pros...