Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidence, continues Williams, must be "tested in the crucible of cross-examination." While the accused may not lie, "he is entitled to sit silent and force the proof of guilt." To Williams, guilt is a legal rather than a moral concept: "If you should one day find yourself accused of crime, you would expect your lawyer to raise every defense authorized by the law of the land. Even if you were guilty, you would expect your lawyer to make sure that the Government did not secure your conviction by unlawful means...
...shaded their voices in a seemingly infinite variety of veiled sneers, smiling threats and choked curses. In duets, Ludwig's vibrant, richly textured mezzo-soprano enfolded Berry's robust, securely focused baritone like velvet over steel. A blend of poetry and power, their singing was eloquent proof that strife can be beautiful...
...Kenyapithecus' molars were triangular and had two roots. Its incisors were in line with its canines; ape incisors protrude in front of the canines. Kenyapithecus' chin projected slightly to the front of its teeth; an ape's chin recedes behind its teeth. To Leakey, the proof is undeniable: "Man's separation from his closest cousins-the apes-is now carried back more than a million generations...
...Quebec, an extra dose of a cobalt salt had been added to build and hold the beer's foamy head. When? One month before the first patient's symptoms appeared. Though the amount of cobalt was well below legal levels, and though no conclusive cause-effect proof could be made, Dow dumped $1,260,000 worth of the suds into the sewer and eliminated the cobalt from the beer's ingredients. The incidence of cases immediately dropped to zero...
...pinched nostrils seem to sniff moral pollution in the air. He abominates his widowed father, a pompous timber merchant, accusing him of real and fancied slights to his dead mother. Taking lodgings in the modest household of a former classmate, Hjalmar Ekdal (Donald Moffat), Gregers uncovers more extensive proof of his father's evil ways. Not only did he bring lifelong disgrace to Hjalmar's father through a crooked timber deal, but he also seduced Hjalmar's wife (Betty Miller), a former housekeeper in the Werle household; Gregers' father sired the little daughter that Hjalmar dotes...