Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boys have what you want now, and everyone else helped you work to get it. Now it's Ted's turn. Whatever he wants, I'm. going to see he gets it." What Ted wanted was the Senate. He wanted it as a measure of proof that he could hold his own as a Kennedy. For Ted was the kid brother, and he had to excel to survive in a family where life is a constant contest and victory the only goal...
...fight for recognition in its own backyard. To the natives who practiced it, it was less art for art's sake than a deadly serious business of magic, medicine, fetish and religion. To most white colonizers. African art has always been a mumbo-jumbo sort of thing, "proof" that the native African lacked cultural instincts...
Discrimination has become a very subtle and refined skill in the North. Only the naive take the fact that a firm keeps no records about race as proof of fair employment policy. Only a color-conscious count of heads can discover de facto discrimination. And obviously, the government cannot excuse from such counts those institutions which insist upon their righteousness...
Says he: "I'm not as decrepit as some people say." As proof of the difficulties confronting Mecham, Hayden could point to the fact that in his own party primary he rolled up 113,026 votes-more than his little-known Democratic opponent, Shadegg and Mecham combined...
...Anderson reported that the object has the same sort of radioactivity that is shown by natural iron meteorites. Cosmic rays from distant space have turned some of its iron atoms to unstable manganese 54, which gives off radiation while it is decaying to stable chromium 54. This is good proof that the object was part of a spacecraft that had orbited for a long time above the atmosphere, which stops most cosmic rays. The piece that fell on Manitowoc, Wis., probably came from the breakup of Sputnik IV, the five-ton Russian satellite that was launched...