Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France, so recently considered the 'sick man of Europe,' are recognized today throughout the world!" Taking personal credit-with good reason-for France's present political stability, sound money and favorable trade balance, he said: "For myself, each yes that you give me will be proof of your confidence and your encouragement. It is your response that will tell me whether I can and whether I should pursue my task in the service of France...
...prepared to take success for granted, rather than being surprised or relieved by it. On the long road ahead to the moon, there may yet be setbacks and disasters, but last week's shot guaranteed that they will be accepted as the price of enterprise, not as discouraging proof of backwardness...
...this difference: the Jew and the Negro are minorities and we are in the majority. Our own breed of jackasses so far outnumber us that we long ago gave up the idea of handling them." When a twelve-year-old white girl accused a Negro of rape, Saunders rushed proof of the man's innocence into print in time to avert a lynching...
...often difficult to prove, even after expensive and time-consuming investigation, whether an individual was refused employment because of his race or for other reasons. But it is too easy to shift the burden of proof by assuming that any organization that doesn't employ a certain number of Negroes must be discriminating...
...exhibition thus provides ample proof that Africa had many cultures predating by centuries the arrival of European influence. This realization gave the show different meanings to white and black viewers. To one white viewer, writing in the Rhodesia Herald, the show offered "nothing but crudity, primitiveness and savagery . . . we are used to a culture that produces artists of the calibre of Michelangelo, sculptors of the calibre of Rodin." But a serious and elegant Negro was led to wonder "whether the local Europeans were able to understand anything of all this...