Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realize, said one Israeli spokesman with an angry gesture toward the steamer lying at anchor in Haifa harbor, "that what Nasser did to the Panaghia today, he can do to British and American ships tomorrow." To the people of Israel at least, the 550-ton Greek freighter was floating proof that Egypt's Nasser, as master of the Suez Canal, could not be counted on to keep his promise not to interfere with the free passage of shipping. The Panaghia itself was not the only vessel to find its way barred as it tried to pass through the canal...
Tons of rain sweeping across the island at speeds of up to 156 m.p.h. breached sea walls, wrecked the Ryukyus Command building, reduced 3rd Marine Division headquarters to rubble and killed a military policeman. While Okinawa's 40,000 Americans shook inside their typhoon-proof but half-flooded houses, World War II Quonset huts were hurled into paddies and wrapped around telegraph poles. Thirty-five hours later, Okinawans found 7,000 homes and 80 public buildings totally destroyed, 27 fishing boats wrecked. Gone was 40% of the island's precious rice crop, 80% of the sweet-potato crop...
...suspect emboldens editors to print gossip and rumor about what he may have done. Whether Eastbourne deaths prove the year's big crime story or an ugly case of slander, the British press will have shown that tough laws may result in puzzling readers, but are no proof against an orgy of sensationalism...
...tell about ancient climate and geography. His favorite haunts are peat beds, where plant material is often preserved so well that the species can be identified easily after many thousand years. Pollen grains are especially useful. Birch pollen found at a certain level of an ancient peat bed is proof that the climate was cold when the peat was formed. If the peat is dated by its carbon 14 content, the actual age of the cold period can be determined...
...Tassili-N-Ajjer, a plateau about 900 miles southeast of Algiers. Today the region is one of the driest deserts on earth and almost uninhabited, but in prehistoric and early historic times it boiled with vigorous life. Last week French Anthropologist Henri Lhote was back in Algiers with proof of what Tassili-N-Ajjer (which means river plateau) was like while the rains still came...