Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slugs marred the first stage of "Operation Curbside," as Cambridge officials boasted, "We have a fool-proof machine." Even vandals were unable to damage the meters, although two tried hard. The offenders were caught and given fifteen days in the House of Correction...
...Times lent it 16 tons of paper. The Worker ran a thank-you note, but some of the Times's readers took it to task. The Times added comfortably: "We think democracy . . . strong enough to withstand any verbal blows ... by the Daily Worker, and we think that proof of this strength can best be provided by permitting [it] to keep on talking...
...engaged in halting the expansion of Russia, whether czarist or communist, in the direction of the Dardanelles. Since shortly after the end of World War II, British troops have been stationed in Greece, ostensibly to "see that democracy is reestablished." If her historic policy in the Mediterranean is insufficient proof, then her tacit approval of the present corrupt reactionary Tsoldaris government demonstrates that the first intention of the British government is to halt the Russians rather than to bring democracy to the lower Balkans. The British appeal to the United States for active aid in Greece is impelled...
...since only human beings get yellow fever, only human beings can serve as guinea pigs.* The first tests, moreover, are bungled; but eventually, after an Army doctor has died, a soldier has been inoculated by press-gang methods, and four others have become guinea pigs voluntarily, experiment turns into proof...
While scratching his beard in a foxhole one day, Infantryman Al Daniels thought up the idea as a gag. When he came home, U.S. cosmetic peddlers, well aware of the faint line between a gag and a gold mine, would not let him forget it. So Daniels Shadow Proof Inc. of Boston last week invaded the $50,000,000-a-year men's toiletries market with a carnation-scented, flesh-colored paste which will camouflage 5 o'clock shadow and banish that unshaven look. At Manhattan's Macy's, one excited employee hailed...