Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planned no more ambitious a ploy than to referee an exhibition bout between Lightweight Champion Carlos Ortiz and his sparring partner, the sweat, the blows -and the appreciative gasps-were just part of the job. But for 2,000,000 people in the city's slums, they were proof that somebody cared. Indeed this concern was just what they had come to expect from the 45-year-old mayor of New York...
...rounding a recessional curve and would pick up speed during the second half of 1967 (TIME, May 12). Inevitably, some skeptics continued to skep, arguing that a major downturn might still be in store. By last week, with the publication of a midsummer set of indicators, the statistical proof of a strong second half became so clear as to erase almost all doubt. Items...
...politeness hardly suggested a Texas raider, and Ling himself soon ventured out to win the heart and mind of Milwaukee. He phoned Allis-Chalmers directors, then took Roscoe G. Haynie, formerly president of Wilson & Co. and now an L-T-V director, around to the Milwaukee Journal as living proof that bought-out bosses do not just fade away. About that earlier trip to town, Jim told reporters that he had seen a film about Wisconsin that "really was enlightening. I really hadn't known too much about this area...
...area almost as vast as Texas. In the process, its waters dissolve untold quantities of plant juices and tree sap. Now scientists have discovered that the Rio Negro's botanically infused waters may be a simple, untapped and essentially unlimited supply of a new and fool proof insecticide...
Others have served up the subject matter before, but have always done so in small doses--diluting, as Claude Weaver '65 puts it, "the hundred-proof truth with large draughts of humanitarian appeal." Wright's sociological and philosophical monograph, Black Power and Urban Unrest, demonstrates a surprising measure of clarity as well as intuition, acute political savvy as well as a cultivated sense of outrage...