Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patriot's Proof. At a time when critics from Reykjavik to London to New Delhi are potshotting at the U.S., there was very little freshness in Mollet's words; the newness was that they should come from the mouth of a French Premier. Only three weeks before, Mollet's Foreign Minister and Fellow Socialist Christian Pineau had made a calculatingly indiscreet speech suggesting that there was no longer a common purpose in Western foreign policy (TIME, March 12). Behind such taunts and twists were a whole hatful of political factors, not the least Mollet...
...right to fire a Communist Party member, unless the teacher is proved unfit as a teacher. Nor should it have the right to dismiss a man solely because he pleads the Fifth Amendment. In such cases the school may have the duty to investigate further. But the burden of proof should lie with the institution, and no final decision should be made until the accused professor has been judged by his academic peers. Though it may be legally indefensible, added the committee, a refusal to answer questions out of fear of hurting others "may not be morally or academically blameworthy...
...indignant letter to the Worker ran: "[You] have followed successive flip-flops with amazing jolt-proof gymnastic dexterity, without ever being at a loss for editorial words. The doctors were plotting, the doctors were not; Beria was in, Beria was out; Tito was out, Tito was in; Yugoslavia was a dictatorship with ruthless suppression of opposition, Yugoslavia is finding its independent path to socialism; Stalin is up, Stalin is down . . . The Daily Worker editors had carved out a position even more unassailable than the Soviet leaders have claimed for them selves. The Soviet leaders admitted to previous mistakes. The Daily...
...upshot seemed to be that Warburg and Dougherty have supplied promising leads, but the proof of their theories must await time's test...
...tuberculosis, none is greater than the inability of doctors on opposite sides of the Atlantic to agree on the value of BCG vaccine (TIME, Dec. 25, 1950) as a TB preventive. Medical men in Europe, and especially Scandinavia, look at the reports on their BCG programs and see "proof" that the vaccine is effective in conferring immunity. Doctors in the U.S. look at the same reports (supposedly scientific, and therefore objective) and sneer: it's no good. In this crossfire the British stayed neutral for years, finally started a searching BCG test of their own. Their conclusion, after five...