Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more proof that gout is not, as was once supposed, simply the result of high living. In starvation, the kidneys do not clear enough uric acid, which accumulates in the blood, may then crystallize to cause the anguish of gout...
...position in London, drinking heavily, finally brawling his way into a term in jail-all to give him proper credentials for becoming a defector to the East. In private, he begins creating the character he is about to play, a projection of his own personality that must, nevertheless, be proof against self-betrayal by a natural impulse, a personal habit. Grafting a novelist's perceptions to the taut skills of a suspense-tale writer, Le Carré slowly reveals that Leamas' superiors were right-he is literally sick to death of spying...
...science fiction. Instead they are a race of supermen, perhaps descended from the inhabitants of the lost island of Atlantis (they were thought to have possessed flying machines, and so might have migrated to another planet). With mad logic, Brown's fellow fantasists have built a fabric of proof by linking together all manner of telltale occurrences, past and present-the disappearance of a man here, a successful experiment in levitation there, flying saucers, of course, and reports of fresh fish falling inexplicably on land (obviously droppings from space aquariums...
...attempting to establish the innocence of Lee Harvey Oswald appeared in the National Guardian on Dec. 19. The CRIMSON has excerpted from it an analysis of the confused and contradictory evidence showered upon the public by the national news media, in order to show that this evidence constitutes no proof of Oswald's guilt. Reprinted by permission of the National Guardian...
...egocentric exactress of 70 who does not choose to act her age since she does not feel it. She (which is all the play calls her) is clever in speech, stupid about life. At long last, she wants to be her own woman, though there is no proof that she has ever really been anyone else's. The selfish mistakes of a lifetime gradually filter into her drawing room to offer comic rebuke. One son marries the spitfiery image of his mother, and the couple travels to the brink of divorce. Too little love, rather than too much...