Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been able to fulfill basic world needs, and by its very survival and growth has proven itself vital. What more proof of this do we need than the formation of a flesh-and-blood U.N. police force in reaction to this very invasion of Egypt...
...profession, hoping that it will lead Gina into an older and more profitable one. Mother proudly proclaims that "there was not a figure like [Gina's] in all Rome." As the movie opens, Gina strips in an artist's studio and poses. It is merely another proof that mother is always right...
...spite of telephone threats. Principal D. J. Brittain Jr. stood faithfully by his Negro charges. He threatened to expel their tormentors, but neither he nor his faculty found proof enough to do so. Last week the Negroes stayed away from school in protest. The frightening question that faces them: whether they will ever be allowed to go back to the Clinton high school without suffering even more abuse than they already have...
...sense, the prestige of the U.S. rose as that of its rivals fell. The myth of the Moscow mass man and Marxist benevolence lay buried in the rubble of Budapest, which Pope Pius XII called "the bloodstained proof of the ends to which atheist Marxism leads." The British and French, who had sought to make policy by reviving 19th century gunboat diplomacy, had temporarily lost their credentials for world statesmanship. But in another sense, the U.S. had earned the new regard by its own conduct. In time of crisis and threat of World War III, President Eisenhower had cast...
...went farthest, and stayed longest, with Stalin was Vyacheslav Molotov. Last week, after a brief eclipse, flinty-eyed Molotov, 66, moving into a key government job, gave renewed proof of his extraordinary durability in politics at its most hazardous...