Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though collectivization is sometimes compared with the spread of so-called agribusiness conglomerates in the U.S., the differences are enormous because workers have little concern about production results on a state farm. Proof: the 2% to 3% of the Soviet Union's farm land that is privately owned produces about 25% of all Soviet agricultural output, primarily vegetables, fruit, milk and meat...
...country of law and justice and due process. Before we have at least prima-facie proof, let us not voice our suspicions. Our chief of staff told the foreign affairs and defense committee they might have been Jews and they might have been Arabs. It is a fact that Arabs kill Arabs in this country. But I do not exclude other possibilities. I say whoever did it perpetrated a horrible crime. And I do not say that Mr. Shaka'a [mayor of Nablus] is a friend of Israel. He is not. But he is a human being. And nobody...
...Guinness Book is proof that spectators, no less than performers, have been thoroughly infected with the obsession of recorditis. The public avidly eats up records of just about everything or earth: the biggest or highest or fastest or heaviest or deepest or oddest of natural or manmade wonders. Just such a Guinness Book has offered since it first came out in 1955. It has now sold 40 million copies in 23 languages worldwide, 25 million in the U.S. alone...
...country home of the Tarleton clan seems demolition-proof. John Tarleton (Sandy Webster), self-made head of Tarleton's Underwear, is a man of irrepressible élan vital to whom skeptic thought is the champagne of the mind...
...legend isn't as well-known as it might be, in part because there is little proof, and in part because there is so much else for the city to pride itself on. Cambridge too is celebrating its 350th, a year-long bash commemorating the city that gave birth not only to endless generations of Harvard scholars but also the Porterhouse steak, the Polaroid Land camera, and the proportional representation election. "Boston is the biggest suburb of Cambridge," former mayor Edward Crane '35 was fond of declaring; indeed, few cities of 100,000 have had an impact so large...