Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...westward over the Pacific Ocean one day last month, carried an international thunderclap. To the high-patrolling U.S. bombers, which scooped up samples of its fine dust, the radioactivity was obvious evidence of some kind of Russian atomic blast. To the scientists who analyzed the samplings, it was clear proof that the Russians had exploded a thermonuclear superbomb, a remarkably exact duplicate of the U.S.'s own. To the political leaders of the U.S., the air mass was one more ominous sign that the time was close when the Russians might have enough atomic strength to destroy...
Pike caught Dr. Smith by transatlantic telephone before the conference had begun, and ordered him to erase the item from the agenda. Later proof of the laxity of British security gave Strauss ample justification for his fight. Nonetheless Lilienthal partisans were furious and still pooh-poohed the alarm...
...Living proof that opera stars need not run to suet, Soprano Marguerite Piazza struck a pretty poolside pose outside her hotel in Las Vegas, where she is busy singing in a nightclub for better-than-opera...
...proposed a twelve-point code to regulate news reporting of criminal cases. He denounced the present state of affairs as "the law of the jungle." Key clause in Otterbourg's code: "Statements that a prisoner has confessed to a crime should not be made [in the press] until proof of a confession has been received in evidence at the trial . . ."* Three days later, Boston's press answered Otterbourg in Page One headlines blaring the out-of-court confession of pretty, 25-year-old Stenographer Mildred McDonald, that she had shot, stabbed and burned to death a 14-year...
...Festival of Ohio's Antioch College. The plays were all minor (e.g., Coriolanus, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens), the actors were hardly more than adequate, the productions unfinished. But even so, the performances on Antioch's open-air platform stage were, in Atkinson's opinion, proof that "the sort of marshmallow Shakespeare represented by the Katharine Hepburn As You Like It a few seasons ago ... is obsolete today. For it is time we pulled loose completely from the grandiose pretensions of the 19th century style of Shakespearean producing. It is time we came face to face...