Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like competing with immigrants and Hispanics for jobs," James Clement, a friend, told the Washington Post. When Ferguson applied at a car wash, said Clement, the manager laughed at him. The next day, Ferguson walked into Turner's Outdoorsman and made a downpayment on a gun. As proof of residency, he used a California driver's license he had received on a previous visit and the Royal Motel address. Fifteen days later his security check was completed, and Ferguson paid the balance. By the end of May, he was back in New York City -- with the Ruger. Ferguson thought that...
Clinical fellows in ambulatory pediatrics tend to plight their troth to otolaryngologists with thriving law practices on the side. The fathers of these wunderkind tend to head retailing or philatelic concerns. Their children's accomplishments constitute proof that the American dream is alive and well. The mothers, almost always, are psychotherapists or social workers (Now we know where Betty Friedan's original target audience ended...
Coulmier, the director of the asylum (Seth Richards) introduces the spectacle: his inmates, having been put under the direction of de Sade (David Levine), will be performing an `historical' play about Marat's murder for a public audience as proof of their `rehabilitation.' These inmates come from all walks of life: past revolutionaries, priests and vagrants. Tying the whole messy lot together is a herald (Adam Feldman), who, as the ringmaster for this crew of raving lunatics, introduces each scene as it happens in terse rhyme, prompts the players with their lines and constantly mediates between Coulmier and de Sade...
Sullivan cited the Universal Catechism of the Holy Roman Church, which says, "A not negligible number of men and women have pronounced sexual tendencies," as proof in support for his argument...
...inquiry commissioned by the Franciscan Order of the Roman Catholic Church found that sexual abuse took place at St. Anthony's Seminary in Santa Barbara for more than 20 years. The yearlong investigation uncovered proof that at least 34 boys were molested by 11 friars from 1964 to 1987. Prosecutions are not expected, however, as the six-year statute of limitations on sex crimes...