Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Margaret Chase Smith, his own light-colonel sister (retired) in Air Force arms. Colonel Smith last week dropped her opposition to Jimmy Stewart. The Defense Department assured the committee that active Pilot Stewart will, if a national emergency comes, be grounded in a public-relations billet. If any proof were needed that Stewart will be a thoroughly competent armchair general, it came last week in a fine CBS-TV documentary program (Cowboy Five Seven) about the Strategic Air Command. The filmed show's producer-director-narrator: Stewart. His promotion will be official after certain Senate approval this week...
...circumstances or our temperament, is really God or Nature or the Life Force making purposeful experiments in eugenics. But this can be dismissed as another example of Shaw's tendency to exaggerate, to generalize, and to dogmatize about matters concerning which he knew nothing, and as another proof that the canny old master was not least brilliant when he was most wrong...
...Steel's tough, plain-talking President Thomas Patton on TV's Meet the Press. Not only does the current contract provide high wages and benefits, contended Patton, but it also leaves plenty of room for further wage boosts through job promotions and incentive pay. Patton's proof: since contract negotiations opened just two months ago, average hourly wages have jumped from...
...woods of the industrial parks along commuter-clogged 128 are tucked scores of low, angular buildings bearing science-fiction names: Trans-Sonics, Tracerlab, Microwave, Dynametrics. These plants add up to the biggest and fastest-growing science-based complex* in the U.S., and provide the nation's most impressive proof of the vast new industrial potential of the electronics and space age. Beyond that, they are a dramatic demonstration of the fact that behind current new industrial development lies one key factor: new ideas...
...Wrote an anonymous Canadian bard: Away with honors, knighthoods, swords, In proof of high endeavor. We'll wear where Adam wore the fig The Maple Leaf forever...