Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree with all the good you wrote about us. I deny all the bad. Furthermore there is no proof that the Black Dahlia's murderer was a citizen of Los Angeles. He might have been from Florida...
Unmistakable Proof. The objective of the treaty, he declared, was to provide "unmistakable proof this time that the free nations will stand together to resist armed attack from any quarter." Being purely defensive, it was no old-fashioned military alliance...
...government's middle-of-the-road Party of Revolutionary Institutions a sweeping victory. It won all but one of the 147 seats at stake in the Chamber of Deputies. Not even the opposition parties expected much else. For most Mexicans, the election's greatest significance was the proof it offered that their country, after years of mixing blood with ballots, was finally reaching political maturity...
...friend once pointed out that the New York Senator's own life was proof that it is possible to rise from the slums (his father was a janitor for a tenement house on Manhattan's East Side). Said Wagner bitterly: "That is the most God-awful bunk. I came through it, yes. That was luck, luck, luck. Think of the others...
...Britain's dollar and gold reserves. The danger point, many Britons had long thought, would be reached if the reserves fell below ?500 million. Last week they stood at closer to ?400 million. To Cripps's many critics it looked as if the crisis was the final proof that his policies should be scrapped. They renewed their demands that Britain abandon bilateral deals and compete freely in a world market...