Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More Proof? Swedish Minister of Defense Sven Andersson was suspicious of Wennerstrom for two years prior to his arrest, but Premier Tage Erlander was not informed until after agents had picked up Wennerstrom on the way to his office. As opposition critics pounced, Erlander went on television to explain: "It is impossible for the government to be informed of every person who is under suspicion. We need more proof in a democratic society before we can take action." It sounded like a lame excuse to Liberals and Conservatives, who demanded a parliamentary investigation. Meanwhile, always the gentleman, Wennerstrom reportedly asked...
...central-government leaders in Leopoldville have been terrified of a renewed secession attempt in Katanga once U.N. troops pull out of the Congo. A personal campaign against Tshombe began last May when his bodyguard was forcibly disbanded. Next Tshombe's correspondence was seized, with hints that it gave proof of treasonable designs. The ailing Tshombe took the hint and left for Europe, vowing: "I will come back, and I will not abandon my post...
...Guinean disquaire at Paris' King Club who plays his twin turntables with all the grace and flamboyance of a 19th century concert pianist. When too many dancers take the floor in France, the compleat disquaire strikes them into their chairs by playing a French song-recurrent proof of the popular theory that Frenchmen hate their own music. To liven things up, disquaires turn to Ray Charles or a hully-gully by The Cookies...
Familiar pictures of lasers burning holes in diamonds (TIME, April 20, 1962) are no proof at all of death ray capability. Such feats, Thirring protests in Britain's New Scientist magazine, are accomplished by concentrating a powerful flash of laser light on a tiny area by means of a lens. It is a nice trick in a laboratory, but warheads plunging down from space hardly can be expected to carry lenses to expedite their own destruction. To fuse a steel casing weighing 100 Ibs. would require a laser light strong enough to deliver 807 kilowatts of energy...
...detail, Greene has said that a novel is a kind of confession. But whatever he says on this subject, he goes on dropping clues in an ever-lengthening paper chase which seems to lead straight through the potting shed into a paradoxical garden where loss of faith is somehow proof of God's existence. The latest is a new short story called A Visit to Morin. Presented along with a slight bouquet of recent literary Greenery, Morin is fascinating (and likely to draw more attention than the other stories in the book) precisely because it seems to carry Greene...