Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pummeling that the French franc has received from the dollar, Perkins' electioneering ploy seemed to be a gratuitous blow to Gallic pride. "Parisians do not cry nightly with eyes bathed in tear gas," sniped Le Quotidien de Paris. "The number of Americans in Paris this August is proof of that...
...hopes of resuming his opposition to the autocratic regime of President Ferdinand Marcos. But Aquino, 51, feared that he would be turned back or arrested-or worse. So, as his China Airlines Boeing 767 from Taipei approached Manila International Airport, he ducked into a washroom and slipped a bullet-proof vest under the same white safari suit he wore when he left three years earlier. "I'm O.K., I'm protected here," he said as he patted his torso. "But if they hit me in the head, I'm a goner...
...imminent. Yet when the votes were counted, the P.R.I. had swept all 17 seats. The opposition immediately accused the ruling party of having used ten-year-old voters, a drunken electoral representative and out-and-out ballot box-stuffing to ensure victory, but it has so far offered no proof of foul play...
Television is proof positive of the theorem that the mere act of observing something changes the nature of the thing observed. Just look at the Louds. In 1973, millions of viewers did, as a twelve-part, $1.2 million PBS documentary called An American Family recorded seven months in the life of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Loud and their five shaggy children of the California sun. Significant anthropology or indiscriminate voyeurism, the video vérité documentary transformed the unprepared Louds into instant celebrities, paradoxically enlarging and diminishing them at the same time...
Since December, I have received several anonymous threats, but they have not weakened my resolve to continue to expose the horrors of the Cuban regime. Recently in Paris, a person who introduced himself as an official of the Cuban embassy requested a meeting with me to "show me proof that would be made public if I did not refrain from my "counterrevolutionary" activities. My answer caused him to slam down the phone. Subsequently, I received an anonymous telephone call warning me they would make public a film showing me exercising. They were, I presume, hoping to discredit my claims...