Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play at exuberance, middle age has crept into his writing. The writing itself hasn't changed much--the sentences still go on for several multi-adjectived, vocabulary-taxing, punctuation-packed clauses--but the narrator has changed entirely. Wolfe has stepped away from his subjects into the sound-proof booth of cynicism. In other words, so long New Journalism...
...says that "monogamy has never worked." Even though we may all have polygamous drives, the fact that many people do make monogamy work is proof that other things are involved. And in a world of dizzying change, the pair bond may increasingly answer needs more basic than sexual ones...
...Jonathan Bingham: "It is immaterial whether or not there has been a final conviction. He was selling his services for a substantial sum of money. Myers has brought shame on himself and on this House . . . To take any lesser action than expulsion would, I'm afraid, be further proof to our disillusioned young people that Congress protects its own and condones influence peddling...
THESE ARE THE TIMES that try men's souls," Colonel Dale Ullrich, Northeast Recruiting Group Commander, begins, citing inflation and unemployment as proof of the national troubles. "Food and clothes cost more," he continues. "We are in a time of crisis and a year of great stress for our system of government." As if that isn't enough, Ullrich observes, "The moral fiber of many of our institutions seems to have deteriorated...
...that Iraq, one of the Jewish state's archenemies, could develop a nuclear weapons potential. Indeed the Iran-Iraq conflict, the first recent major crisis in the region in which Israel is not involved, was being closely watched in Jerusalem. "That fight," said an Israeli official acidly, "is proof that there is an inherent instability in the Middle East of which we are not a part...