Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital he loped (as best he could) with his toy cowboy gun hanging from his hip. Back home at Blair House, there were cowboy and Indian suits, a drum, a road-scraper, a Mickey Mouse hat, a bicycle, lollipops, a toy tractor from the President. As if proof were needed that children are the same the world over, he presided at a children's party at the Saudi Arabian embassy and started a typical childlike ruckus of his own. Photographers asked him. to kiss a little American girl, Mary Harris, granddaughter of U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia George Wadsworth...
Hadn't we better listen to a proven peacemaker (Eisenhower), rather than a proven failure (Acheson) in shaping our foreign policy in the Middle East? The best proof that Eisenhower's proposal accomplishes the desired ends is the anguished wail from behind the Iron Curtain...
...some time to come, since, as he explains, Poland must move carefully if the nation is not to imperil its hard-won gains. But Polish journalists, having tasted freedom, are still getting stones past the censor that would never see print in any other Communist country. One sure proof of their effectiveness is that the Polish press is being denounced in Pravda...
...this nefarious business is nothing new. In fact, there's a strong precedent for ledger-stuffing. Just two years ago, for instance, the fight was between Thomson and John Eldridge. By the time-honored traditional means, Thomson saved the day for his side, recruiting even apolitical persons and Democrats--proof of his high-minded, unprejudiced criteria...
...from a subjective point of view, very little art. The typical reader wants a diversion. He reads in order to prevent anything happening to him. He reads because he cannot stand being alone. He reads for the same reason he smokes, or drinks, or plays records, or gossips. The proof is that most people combine these things with their reading...