Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Dana Getchell said that today's match and the game on Friday against Dartmouth will be the real proof of just how good the freshman team is this year...
...Doer is self-starting, and constantly in motion. His ego is proof against reverses. He is likely to be a moralist rather than an ideologue-a Ralph Nader instead of a Mark Rudd. Because he combines pragmatism, idealism and creativity, he can accept life's ambiguities-and then synthesize them into surprising new patterns. In Doer, wrath at the status quo translates into useful social action. In the revolutionary, it accummulates; unable to find release, it bursts into antisocial violence...
...Martin's head was never found, McGuire says, so "the missionaries buried what they could find of him." "Bill Brown" reportedly had a wife and family in Rhodesia, who are vainly attempting to collect the money he deposited in a bank under his real name, for they have no proof that he is dead. "No death certificate, no anything...
...near Rome, Zeffirelli remains the low-pressure gran signore, entertaining ten or twelve friends for lunch, inhaling gusts of Winston smoke from fingertip-held cigarettes. His braggadocio extends even to his genealogy. "One day my father showed up with an armful of documents," he recalls. "He finally had documented proof of my origins. I told myself that it really wasn't so bad being a bastard now that I knew I was descended from one of the world's most celebrated bastards -Leonardo da Vinci...
...demonstrators booed when it was over. Then the booing unexpectedly peaked and suddenly the candidate was beaming behind his big bullet-proof podium, which covered all but his head and shoulders. His sympathetic listeners in the crowd, which crammed a grassy area of several city blocks, let out whoops of greeting which again reached higher than the catcalls...