Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burden of proof should rest upon the officials bringing the charge...
Faced with the mounting proof of their error, the Viet Cong last week issued grim orders that "anyone saying that Nguyen Van Be is alive will be shot on the spot." Meantime, Be's name has been put at the top of a list of those marked for death, and a price of 2,000,000 piasters (about $17,000) has been put on his head. Viet Cong agents have been caught bugging the phones at the security house in Saigon to which Be has been transferred under heavy guard. Be's home village...
...found it superbad, supergood or supersomething. This month the Ladies' Home Journal has discovered in California a superwoman - along with her superchildren. "She has slipped the old orders and mores," the magazine proclaims. "The 'back home' social structure has evaporated. She has be come scandal-proof. She is with it intellectually. This Western woman lives in todays and thinks in tomorrows...
...dismissing it as legend. The fact of the Resurrection, he declares, was one of the primitive elements of Christian teaching, and its conceptual possibility is foreshadowed in apocalyptic passages of the Old Testament-notably in Isaiah 26:19. Pannenberg further argues that the Resurrection is God's proof to man that biological death is not the end to existence, and that there is an ultimate meaning and purpose to history...
...records of the longevity of Civil War veterans give Myers his most solid evidence of the true rate of attrition by age. Of 2,100,000 men in the Union Army in the 1860s, there were 430,000 drawing pensions in 1914, all of whom had given reasonably satisfactory proof of age. By 1945-at which date one of those 15-year-old drummer boys who enlisted in the last weeks of the war would have to be 95-there were only 210 Union veterans left. In 1954, only one survived, and he died...