Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affected by the automatic trigger to free themselves of federal scrutiny by proving that more than 50% of their voting-age Negroes were registered. Another would have permitted some 330,000 Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans in New York to vote, even though they did not know English, by showing proof of a sixth-grade education in a school operated under the U.S. flag...
...space reporting U.S. "teach-ins" and predicting the ultimate rejection of the war by the American people. As Honey says: "Reading the Hanoi papers, you would think that the only Senator in the U.S. is Wayne Morse and the only columnist Walter Lippmann. They offer all this as proof that their cause will succeed...
Those Units. The telephone company, said Wright afterward, "in effect was put in a position of disproving a negative." It naturally plans to appeal. Cried Garrett, raising his hands to the heavens, "Where can any of us find the burden of our proof? It's all buried somewhere in some tight steel vault." He explained darkly: "We never know what we're being charged for on those bills-all those message units. How do I know how many message units I've used? What is a message unit anyway? Who can evaluate the damages of each call...
Serious scientists have speculated a good deal about antimatter. They have already proved the existence of anti-particles-anti-protons, anti-neutrons, positrons (anti-electrons)-but are there also complex forms of antimatter? Many physicists have seriously doubted it. They did not have proof that particles of antimatter could be bound into anything as large as antiatoms in the same way that the nuclear force holds together earthly atoms...
...Furniture. Two-thirds of these sales are earned by Samsonite's familiar, streamlined luggage, which is recognized, used and often inadvertently exchanged by travelers around the world. Its dent-proof magnesium frame, flush snap locks, and a plastic skin that can withstand everything from the -50° F, cold in an airliner's cargo compartment to the rough treatment of baggage handlers, have lifted luggage sales almost beyond Samsonite's capacity. The company has placed its 13-acre Denver luggage plant on a seven-day, round-the-clock schedule, is actively scouting sites for three additional plants...