Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soak one pound of split peas for two days in 100-proof bourbon. Distribute the peas outside your windows, on the ledge or fire escape, and then sit back and wait. Soon hordes of pigeons will descend to eat the peas. The effect of the 100-proof bourbon on a pigeon's constitution is amazing, and soon they will fall to their own natural death...
...quantum mechanics appeared as a more valid description of mechanics upon the atomic level. In both cases the significance is hardly abstruse. Scientists who extend their laws to situations other then where they were originally derived should do so with great care. Where possible they should seek experimental proof...
...Kentucky Republican John Sherman Cooper declared, "I dislike seeing the United States, great nation that it is, chasing off in a grubby manner after Russian gold." In Coronado, Calif., Goldwater reversed his field, charged that the wheat sale, coming on top of the proposed joint moon venture, is fresh proof that the Kennedys are running "a Soviet-American mutual aid society...
...Proof Impossible...
...nearby iron furnaces) came bronzes from Milan, candelabra from Flanders, rare woods from the New World. Philip personally supervised the work from a stone seat overlooking the site two miles away. He raised laborers by national levies, and many saw in the macabre plan of the monastery a visible proof of his will to burn alive all heretics from the Catholic faith...