Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend, it also has a severe and implacable critic. Never again will I remain silent when I can recognize injustice, regardless of how that injustice may be wrapped in the dirty linen of expediency or necessity. Never again will I fail to question, to demand proof. Never again will I accept the 'clever' rationale, which appears to make sense but under scrutiny does...
Holding the Lid. In proof of the line's amazing adaptability, Novotny tackled an embarrassing task: making his promised new explanation of the execution of Party Secretary Rudolf Slansky in 1952 for "activities against the state." Slansky was guilty, all right, explained Novotny, but not of what he was accused of. The charges presented in court, particularly those implicating Tito's Yugoslavia, were all "false and fabricated." But authorities had since discovered new Slansky crimes, e.g., torturing suspects. Therefore, Slansky would not be rehabilitated...
...find a Miss Pakistan shapely enough to carry away the crown of Miss Universe at Long Beach, Calif., are a hardy lot. A group of 15 Westward-looking businessmen and emancipated society women (twelve of them Moslems), they devised what seemed at first to be a prejudice-proof set of rules for the conduct of a proper Islamic beauty contest. Only a panel of female judges would see each contestant in a bathing suit; the girls could appear before male judges only when properly clad in veil and head-to-toe burka. The beauty sponsors even promised that when Miss...
First-class journalists, they quickly learn the ground rules for a good TIME story. Proof of this is in the adjoining masthead, which is heavily sprinkled with the names of former string correspondents, including about half the senior editors...
...fore annually when the West Point cadets came to Cambridge for the Harvard-Army football game. The cadets, marching solemnly over Anderson Bridge to the Stadium, presented a marked contrast to the motley Harvard rooters. But the CRIMSON was not alarmed: "the playing field this afternoon should give ample proof that the men of West Point offer no inherent threat of jingo militarism against the world...