Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underscore the central conflict between the spiritual and material sides of man. A few patrons found the orgy scenes too shocking and tromped out; but Lewis and Gramm performed magnificently, and the orchestra played the thunderous, jaggedly atonal score to perfection. All in all, the production was further proof of the Boston Opera's growing reputation as the most inventive and adventuresome opera company in the entire...
...Matthew Sgan, associate dean of students, denied that there had been any any suicide attempts: "There is no medical proof that any of the gestures were suicidal." Sgan did confirm that "specific students are being questioned about drugs...
...prayer-sometimes anointing herself with fireplace ashes. From these rituals, Carry apparently drew prodigious strength. While raiding the Senate Bar in Topeka on Feb. 5, 1901, she disarmed a pistol-toting bartender (his two shots missed) and pulverized a $500 back-bar mirror. When an iron cash register stood proof against her hatchet, she lifted it overhead, carried it outside and smashed it on the street...
Another unresolved controversy developed with regard to medical evidence. The doctors who performed an autopsy on the President's body said they found proof that a bullet had passed through it. Yet their report conflicted with the statements of FBI agents who were also present...
...believes his most important achievements in the Defense Department have been: the "rationalization" of planning in terms of costs and benefits, the provision for limitations on the use of nuclear weapons, and the proof that "the defense department can be run from the top as any large organization ought to be." The new management procedures will survive his departure, McNamara believes, because "public pressure" would prevent his successor from returning to the old hit-or-miss techniques of planning. "I don't think we can walk away from what we've done in the past five years...