Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower noted that the record of the United Nations contains the proof that the U.S. has sought again and again to sit down with the Soviet Union and negotiate the great issues of the time, including the German and Austrian treaties and peace in Korea. At Bermuda, he added, the heads of government of the three great Western democracies agreed to sit down with Russia on Jan. 4 at Berlin to negotiate any disputes between the Kremlin and the West...
...determined to speak out. While still professing to believe in the possibility of witchcraft, Mather explicitly denounced the use of spectral evidence. And while emphasizing his great respect for the court, he cast doubt on many of the other tests the trial judges had accepted as proof. In an eloquent and memorable passage, Mather said: "It is better that ten suspected witches should escape than that one innocent Person should be Condemned . . . It is better that a Guilty Person should be absolved, than that he should without sufficient ground of Convictions be condemned...
...President has stated that he would seek to make the plan self-enforcing and fool-proof, and at the same time has mentioned the "ratios of contributions (to the the stockpile), the procedures and other details" to be worked out in private conversations. But it is plain that the very life of the plan depends on a successful resolution of the disagreements over details. More than once the Russians have sabotaged a Western peace overture through unreasonable demands over procedure...
...Canadian government, which regards a passport simply as a proof of citizenship, was well aware of Rose's departure. Explained an official: "If he never comes back, we're well...
...world upside down, for Wechsler ended up "in the preposterous position of denying under oath that I had myself inspired the long series of communist attacks against me." Here indeed," he adds, "was a daring new concept in which the existence of evidence of innocence becomes the damning proof of guilt...