Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay) flew back to Washington last week, unwilling to side either with Panama or the U.S. on the Jan. 9 Canal Zone riots. Officially the investigators kept a diplomatic silence pending a formal report to the OAS Council. Unofficially they said they found no real proof of U.S. charges that Castroites had instigated the first riots - though pictures of later fighting did show Communist troublemakers in the forefront. The diplomats also concluded that U.S. troops along the Canal Zone border were probably "too forceful" in their defense against invading mobs. Yet Panama, as some...
...were Frank Sinatra singing Night and Day, and Swedish television broadcast the whole concert live. Such European enthusiasm for a breed of cat many Americans still consider weird, if not downright wicked, may seem something of a puzzle. But to jazzmen touring Europe, it is one more proof that the limits of the art at home are more sociological than esthetic...
Just as an unwary reader is about to decide that Pim is man in the hands of a tyrant deity, Bom himself embarks on a chilling step-by-step proof of the existence of some sort of God above them both. He remembers (or projects) an endless series of couplings like his with Pim and then a vast, ordered switching of partners as each Pim crawls on to find and torment a new Bom, and each Bom waits to be found and tormented by a new Pim. This elaborate pattern of exchanged cruelty, Bom cagily reasons, suggests a supervisory being...
...high school principal, and a social worker--in short, the Massachusetts Obscene Literature Control Commission--have provoked the intellectuals, students, and reading public of the Commonwealth into justifiable outrage. The Commission has declared Fanny Hill; Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure "obscene, indecent, and impure" without offering any scientific proof of the allegation...
...reason for the absence of proof is obvious: proof is impossible because the Commission has acted arbitrarily. Fanny Hill's rights under various natural laws and Constitutional Amendments have been flagrantly violated, while other works with much higher obscenity densities are left unmolested by the Commssion...