Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that elections were held on March 25 does not mean that El Salvador has become a democracy. Jebsen cites high turnout as proof that these were "true" elections. I wonder if Mr. Jebsen thinks that the Soviet Union with its 99% voter turnout is a democracy? His response would probably be no, because opposition parties are excluded from the electoral process. Yet in El Salvador, Jebsen admits that the Social Democrats were, if not legally, certainly practically excluded from the elections by fear of assassination...
...burden of proof must always lie with the government when it makes such charges of international gravity. But Meselson's position only appears convincing if he is given the benefit of the doubt on each separate point--a dubious proposition at best...
...added that he and Seeley brought back samples of bee feces and foods to test for such substances--which would be further proof in his mind that they cause the yellow rain...
...peed on a plant and killed it. I liked the plant too much to let it go, so I took it up to the foundry and asked them to try to cast it." Direct casting from such forms was done in the 19th century as a tour de force, proof of a foundry's technical prowess, and Ludwig of Bavaria once commissioned a bronze cast of a whole basketful of flowers, much admired by Graves. But the idea of making modern sculpture by these means had not been tried on a full scale before, although, like nearly everything else...
Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield turned a perceptive innocence against a world that was out to steal their childhoods. But it has long been assumed that they used up the territories of the rural backwater and the prep school. Padgett Powell's twelve-year-old Simons Manigault is proof that they did not. He is in fact one of the most engaging fictional small fry ever to cry thief: sly, pungent, lyric, funny, and unlikely to be forgotten when literary-prize committees gather later in the year. Edisto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 183 pages; $11.95) is an impressive first novel...