Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trial begins," announced Radio Moscow, "with the interrogation of the accused Daniel. At the beginning of the interrogation, he impudently denies the obvious. But then, when the prosecution presents to the court a number of proofs, fright and confusion appear on his slanderous face. Yes, he is being pressed against the wall. Under the weight of the proof, Daniel is forced to admit facts of his criminal activity...
...neatly confined to a plug of fatty or chalky material in a single artery -what doctors call "segmental disease." The majority have a diffuse disease involving several artery branches, vastly complicating all efforts to boost blood flow to the oxygen-starved heart muscle. Because there is as yet no proof that medical treatment with diet, drugs, exercise and control of weight and blood pressure does much good, Santa Monica's Dr. James A. Mc-Eachen told the American College of Cardiology, countless victims may eventually turn to the surgeon for whatever help he can give. And inventive sur geons...
...surprising success is Wiff'n Proof, a cranium-cracking game of symbolic logic played with 36 lettered dice, which was deviously devised by Yale Law Professor Layman Allen. It is played for its instructional values in junior high schools throughout the U.S. And why not? It's really simple once you know that a WFF (pronounced woof) is a Well Founded Formula and a Proof is, well, a proof. And just in case that isn't clear enough, there are a few written instructions to help out-223 pages of them, to be exact...
...mistress, a free-swinging Galician tart, and then with his hook and mallet to the old job in the slaughterhouse. Through all this there clings to him "the typical boiled cabbage smell of all immigrants." It is his fault. He clings throughout to a cabbage, the "authentic proof of my innocence and my simplicity"-and of his official guilt. To the police, it makes him an Arab. He loses his cabbage and it is mistaken for a bomb: he regains it and it is taken from him by the police and photographed on a pile of confiscated weapons. About...
...Right Track. For Mies, such buildings give ample proof of the diversity possible within the unity of a strict structural discipline, one that he has applied to everything from a skyscraper to a chair (the chair, he confessed, was more difficult). "I have tried to make an architecture for a technological society," Mies said. "I have wanted to keep everything reasonable and clear-to have an architecture that anybody...