Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fired a gun. N.A.A. helped to win a Canadian murder conviction in 1959 by matching the accused's hair with tiny hair samples found on the victim. The first such U.S. conviction occurred last winter in a New York federal court, which accepted N.A.A. evidence as proof that the soil found on a truck hauling illicit liquor matched the soil around a moonshiner's still in Georgia...
...Woodward's case, police technicians found the tire iron minutely flecked with paint-a few specks resembling the light blue of his car, a few matching the light brown of the jimmied door. But there was no sure proof that Woodward used the tire iron to jimmy the door. The specks were so tiny (as small as one one-hundredth of a milligram) that conventional chemical or spectroscopic analysis was useless. So the police turned to a radiochemical research team headed by Dr. Vincent P. Guinn of General Dynamics Corp.'s General Atomic Division in San Diego...
...nearly two full years behind their classmates downtown. The dropout rate is 55%, and the children often as not wind up on the streets, for the unemployment rate among Negro teen-agers is 40%. These youths are the despair of Harlem, for they are, in a sense, living proof of its failure. "Look at those damned kids," snapped a Negro man as packs of teenagers ran wild last week. "They won't listen to nobody. They won't listen to no damned thing...
...moves to Jefferson (in The Town and The Mansion), his tribe begins to infiltrate and increase. There is Montgomery Ward Snopes the pornographer, Wat Snopes the carpenter, Virgil Snopes the barber and brothel athlete, and a score of others. When Flem takes over the Sartoris Bank, his success is proof of the loosened grip of the older, principled families...
Even so, the burden of moral proof is heavily on the disobedient to show good faith by nonviolence, meaningful protest and willingness to accept the penalty for their actions. And the basic aim is always the same as regular litigation-to get the challenged law tested by the orderly processes...