Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atomic Cannon. Last week Okinawa was no longer anybody's junkyard. Four-lane highways lace the island. Modern typhoon-proof buildings dot the lush hills. On the seaside flatlands, Army warehouses stretch for serried miles. Hillsides are honeycombed with underground ammunition dumps. Offshore, sleek F-84s practice simulated A-bomb drops. And as the final cap to its new significance, the Army last week landed atomic cannon on Okinawa, the first in the Far East...
...arbitrarily, for, unlike private landlords, it is subject to the requirements of due process of law . . . The U.S. acted arbitrarily in undertaking to evict the Rudders. Their refusal to deny that they were members of any organizations on the [Attorney General's] consolidated list was not proof that they were members. Even proof that they were members of a 'totalitarian' organization, knowing nothing of its character, would be an arbitrary ground [for eviction...
...fermentation; occasionally a rat, hog or snake crawls into the vat, gobbles its fill dies, and floats there until the batch of moonshine is ready for the still. Sometimes the fermenting corn is tinctured with Clorox or lye to beef up its punch (moonshine is rarely more than 75 proof...
...shelves of state liquor stores there has appeared a civilized but untamed 100-proof corn liquor respectably labeled"White Lightning -Clear as the Mountain Dew" and respectably distilled on order by a subsidiary of the Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. in Louisville. The North Carolina Board of Alcoholic Control had decided that it would stop trying to wean moonshine guzzlers, and would offer them a better product...
...Furthermore, ordinations performed by the 13 Episcopally consecrated bishops of C.S.I, since 1947 are also invalid because the bishops were in communion with nonconformist clergymen. The Annunciationists also charged that the C.S.I, refused to accept the Christian creeds in entirety, pointed to a clause in the C.S.I, constitution in proof: "The uniting churches accept the fundamental truths embodied in the creeds . . . but do not intend thereby to demand the assent of individuals to every word and phrase of them...