Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discredited us because I think most people agree with me that the ex-tyrant's escape from Panama in itself was an admission of guilt and proof of the strength of our case-that is, a net moral victory for Iran...
...lessons die hard. While my trust of white people has been betrayed many times to manipulate my behavior, to blind me to the harsh realities of living Black in this society, and to rob me of a heritage it will take years to reclaim, there is also enough proof in my experience to keep me from writing off the lesson as a total...
...spent 18 months counting the American people. The total: 3,929,214. President George Washington, however suspected an undercount. In a letter to Gouverneur Morris, then U.S. Commissioner to Great Britain, Washington worried about the "indolence of the mass, and want of activity" by many census takers. Proof of this thesis: Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was in charge of the tally, had to sign his own name to the list of citizens posted in Philadelphia...
...Palestinians point to the settlements policy as proof that the current autonomy talks are a sham, and that their refusal to participate is justified. "Whose land is this?" asked Hebron's Arab mayor, Fahd Qawasmi. "The Israelis announce this is their land. The U.S. says settlements are illegal. But the American government gives more and more money to Israel. Israel then builds more and more settlements. And they want me to be a party to the autonomy negotiations...
...comic irony and sociocultural observation. It takes place on a California patio, that never-ever land. It includes a middle-aged husband whose wife has been made desolate by his supposed philandering. Actually, the poor devil has long been impotent, his only mistress being an omnipresent slug of 100-proof oblivion. The couple's unemployed son lives in a '51 Pontiac in the garage. He objects to a mobile home on the grounds that it would be "too permanent." Their daughter is a nude, neurotic recluse, hidden in the recesses of the house, who only communicates, facially...