Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Numbers. But such nasty little showboating stunts to disrupt the elections were not the only things the Castroites had in mind. Last week Be tancourt offered proof that Communist Cuba was sending in heavy arms ship ments for full-scale guerrilla warfare. On display in Caracas was an arsenal of three tons of F.A.L.N. weapons: 31 submachine guns, five 60-mm. mortars, 20 bazookas, 28 packages of plastic explosives, 81 Belgian automatic rifles with 20,000 rounds of ammunition. Most of the serial numbers and other markings were ground off. But one rifle still had a number - it turned...
...Visible proof of this is found in seals. They shiver severely after a dive-because they have lost heat in their extremities from lack of circulation. The universality of the phenomenon is demonstrated by the converse in fish: if these normally submerged animals are taken out of the water, they behave very much like land animals that have been put into water. Their hearts slow down, along with the circulation to their extremities...
...issue Miss Christy makes the same claim about Greek pocketbooks, "the new status symbol on the Radcliffe campus.... The accessory sported by those who are 'really in.'" The bags are "proof of travels to Greece or Mexico or Rumania," she contends. 'Cliffies buy them in expensive local shops, but not at Jordan Marsh...
...Austrian-born Canadian who first regarded Diefenbaker with great admiration. He now sees the ex-Prime Minister as a messianic orator who in office "turned out to be not a spiritual leader at all, but a renegade. He interpreted the people's splendid acclaim of him as adequate proof of his greatness." Diefenbaker's administrative skills were those "of a backwoods barrister," says Newman, describing weeks of fran tic search by Diefenbaker's staff for a letter from President Eisenhower - a hunt that ended when Diefenbaker found the letter under his own bed. In Cabinet meetings, says...
...Gothic novel is prone to interest in tombs, graveyards, menacing strangers, cryptic portents, castles and ghosts. These are all present in A Singular Man, cleverly transposed into the idiom of contemporary Manhattan and ancillary Fairfield County. Smith has a great marble mausoleum under construction, air-conditioned, flood-and earthquake-proof. Smith moodily lurks there from time to time. The ghosts are of the contemporary autobiographical kind-Smith's own spectral guilty memories acquired in a posh Jesuit prep school. The furies are represented by the Press. Evil is represented by the abandoned power-bitch wife whose cold heart...