Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba accepted his first Communist aid, $27.7 million in ruble credits. He did so while muttering imprecations against the two nations that he had trusted, France and the U.S. To the De Gaulle government, this was less an occasion for regret than proof of Bourguiba's weakness. And when Bourguiba announced that if France would agree to negotiate its eventual withdrawal from Bizerte, he would not press for a U.N. debate, the confident French took their time about replying. An official source said casually that in view of present East-West tension...
...Miss America," he writes, "stands in a long line of queens going back to Isis, Ceres and Aphrodite. Everything from the elaborate sexual taboos surrounding her person to the symbolic gifts at her coronation hints at her ancient ancestry. But the real proof comes when we find that the function served by The Girl in our culture is just as much a 'religious' one as that served by Cybele in hers." Just as the Virgin in the 12th and 13th centuries sustained the ideals of the age, "so The Girl symbolizes the values and aspirations of a consumer...
...After the public accusation, Hiss filed suit for libel in Baltimore, asking $75,000 damages. In a pretrial hearing, Hiss's lawyers challenged Chambers to show proof of his relationship with Hiss, and Chambers produced the famous "pumpkin papers." They were yielded to the Department of Justice, which in turn called back the grand jury. The grand jury then indicted Hiss for perjury, the count on which he was convicted and sentenced at his second trial. A year later, the libel suit was dismissed for lack of prosecution...
...billion quarts of pure alcohol (the equivalent of 2.8 billion fifths of 90-proof whisky) were consumed in 1960. Bootleg whisky accounts for about another 350 million fifths...
...curse begets an active plot line, part of it borrowed from a Faulkner short story. But Condon's rendering of sagebrush legend is only fitfully funny. Proof that the author himself knows that something is wrong is that on almost every page he stops to wave at friends in the crowd. A street in Paris, for instance, is not too slyly titled "Rue Artbuch Wald...