Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that the Chinese invasion posed a real threat to its own frontiers than with how the crisis would affect its bitter and longstanding dispute with India over control of Kashmir. Bitterly. Pakistan pointed to the crack Indian divisions still positioned along the U.N. cease-fire line as proof that India was exaggerating the extent of the Chinese incursions. Echoing influential Pakistani officials who labeled India the "aggressor" in the border conflict. President Ayub Khan said that "international Communism" was far less of a danger to Pakistan than "Hindu imperialism," and that India was "inflating the present situation beyond proportion...
Presenting himself as proof that the universe is foul, Burroughs achieves the somewhat irrelevant honesty of hysteria as he writes of a malevolent world of users and pushers, of a mad conspiracy of spider-eyed manipulators who sell each other "adulterated shark repellent, cut antibiotics, condemned parachutes, stale antivenom, inactive serums and vaccines, leaking lifeboats." All pity is mockery ("Yes I know it all. The finance company is repossessing your wife's artificial kidney. They are evicting your grandmother from her iron lung"). All degradations are cherished: a coroner named Autopsy Ahmed makes a fortune peddling an Egyptian worm...
...observe that the inequalities of the Gold Coast days seem to have disappeared, but offer no statistics to show whether people of varying backgrounds really talk to each other quite as much as theory assumes. And it might be noted that the democratic achievement of the Thirties is not proof of a sustained, progressive system...
...paradise. His son first discovers an interest in Mormonism when he notices the fine pair of boots a bishop is wearing. Neatly mixing materialism with religion, the bishop makes his convert: "No Lutheran could obtain a pair of boots like these, my lad." he says. "These shoes are a proof that the Church of the Latter-day Saints is founded on the All-Wisdom. These shoes have been a much stronger argument for me in arguments with Lutherans than any quotations from the Prophets...
...proposals for constitutional reform will have to pass both the 1963 and 1965 legislatures and then be placed on the ballot in 1966, but the crucial first steps are the responsibility of the Governor-elect. It may indeed, be "time for Peabody for Governor," but final judgement awaits proof of Peabody's ability to effect his ambitious and needed legislative program...