Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become so tired that their resistance to disease would be dangerously low and that they would catch the flu or one of the gastrointestinal disturbances that afflicted three of the previous four Apollo crews. If that happens, says Berry, "I'll have the whole world on my back demanding proof that they are not down with some moon bug." Berry publicly discouraged Richard Nixon from dining with the astronauts on the eve of their flight, lest the President pass on germs. When the crew members made their final pre-launch public appearance at a press briefing in Houston eleven days...
Hollering is making noise. Hollerin' involves a lot more than that. Jackson, now 76, and the community's reigning basso profundo, gave the final proof. Hitching up his overalls before a crowd of 5,000, he launched into a lusty, ear-piercing "whooo," then followed with a foghorn of a tune that sailed clear into the next county. That was genuine east North Carolina country hollerin'. As Dewey told the crowd, "I been hollerin' since my mammy slapped me on the bottom the day I was born...
...convulsion in man. "There isn't anything that doesn't have some toxic effect," insists Vanderbilt University Toxicologist Wayland J. Hayes, a former Public Health Service official and DDT's stoutest supporter. "The toxic effect of mashed potatoes," he adds rather irrelevantly, "is obesity." As proof of DDT's innocence, Hayes and others often point to studies of workers at the Montrose Chemical Corp., the world's largest DDT producer, and federal prisoners who voluntarily accepted daily doses of DDT in Atlanta. In both cases, they say, there was no damage. But other scientists, including...
Burrowing parallel tunnels toward an otherwise unassailable bank are a band of crooks disguised as robed members of the Church of the Cosmic Heart and a group of Chinese-American T-men impersonating Chinese laundrymen. The crooks want the bank's liquid assets; the agents want proof that the bank's president has been stashing swag for outlaws. Who will get there first...
...literacy tests across the U.S. on the grounds that they discriminate against those who have had an inferior education. It would also abolish residency requirements for voting in presidential elections. But it would eliminate the Justice Department's advance review of voting laws and shift the burden of proof from the states to the Government. The effect of the proposed change would force the Justice Department back to the slower, more costly case-by-case enforcement of voting rights...