Word: proof
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Harvard's hopes Saturday's game will provide that proof. A team that was peaking until a regular season-ending loss to Dartmouth last week will be looking to rebound and regain its top form...
Beyond this, however, campus activists have their argument in a tangle. They call for activism for the sake of activism without taking the time to realize that for the time being, the world is free of cataclysm. Perhaps the best proof that there are no world-changing issues to fight for or against is that would-be activists spend their time attacking the apathetics and not acting...
...early TIME, I think, was to be found at the printer's, which was way-the-hell-and-gone across Manhattan on the West Side somewhere. We would go there on closing night to put the final touches on our creation. This was all very tempestuous. Everybody read proof--I was a proofreader. Brit and Harry also read proof, but they read it with considerable argument. This went on until 11 or 12, or maybe it was 1. Anyway, we would leave some girls reading proof and go out to get the early-morning editions of the newspapers and thus...
With this tape, Wu says, he finally has proof of what he has long charged: that the Chinese are exchanging human body parts for hard currency. And last week the FBI announced it had arrested two men: a former Chinese prosecutor named Wang Chengyong, 41, and Fu Xingqi, 35, his alleged accomplice. Wang's lawyer claims his client was set up. The Chinese government said that "such incidents never happen in China" and that any violations of Chinese law would be punished. But the arrests, which come at a time of increasingly desperate organ shortages, served to focus new international...
...Untold adventure awaits him. He is the man who will land on the moon, cure cancer and the common cold, lay out blight-proof, smog-free cities, enrich the underdeveloped world and, no doubt, write finis to poverty and war. With his skeptical yet humanistic outlook, his disdain for fanaticism and his scorn for the spurious, the Man of the Year suggests that he will infuse the future with a new sense of morality." --Jan. 6, 1967, from Man of the Year profile of the "25 and Under" generation...