Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state brought first-degree murder charges in the case of the drowning victim. The prosecution let one boy turn state's evidence and the judge dismissed the indictment against another. Attorneys for the other two defendants challenged the sufficiency of the proof of premeditation. A Brooklyn jury last week found the two youths, aged 17 and 18, guilty of felony murder on the ground that the victim died during the commission of a kidnaping (he was dragged seven blocks to the river). With this verdict the jurors could-and did-recommend life imprisonment rather than the electric chair...
Last week, in Dallas' Athletic Club, some of the city's leading citizens gave a testimonial dinner to show McCormick how wrong he is about himself. Their proof: McCormick's eight-year-long campaign to get better care for children struck by tuberculosis. "Get this straight," explained McCormick defensively. "I ain't no do-gooder. I don't go out to the hospitals and dandle those kids on my knee. But something had to be done about...
...viewing habits. The NBC spectacular that flashed on screens for 90 minutes last week brought song, dance, comedy, Sonja Henie on ice, and the incomparable Jimmy Durante ("Gimme some No-Cal champagne!"). It was the eighth and best of Weaver's big gambles. But it was not final proof that the spectacular, at $200,000 or more apiece, is going to pay off for NBC with the public, with the critics and with those all-impor-tants of radio-TV, the advertising...
...Mendès' plan for rearming Germany ("infinitely better" than EDC) but thought German rearmament would be difficult to put into effect. "Not that the men in office lack patriotism and personal capability," he said; "the ardor, the worth and vigor of the present Premier are there as proof." De Gaulle insisted that before finally rearming Germany, France should lead negotiations for "a modus vivendi" with Russia. The week's dramas had demonstrated one thing: as of now the French Assembly wants Mendès to be the man who shoulders the responsibility for German rearmament. Whether...
...fight among themselves if I take them too close to gether." His daily quota of alcohol, though still substantial enough to keep him in good standing among the alltime public enemies of the W.C.T.U., had fallen far below the old records. Gone were the uninhibited, wine-purpled, 100-proof, side-of-the-mouth bottle-swigging days of the swashbuckling young Ernest Hemingway who was "the bronze god of the whole literary experience in America," the lion-hunting, trophy-bagging, bullfight-loving Lord Byron of America. "I am a little beat up," Ernest Hemingway now admits, "but I assure...