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Word: proofing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First scientific proof of continental drift by sea-floor spreading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Top of the Decade: Science | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...young Ben, Beau Bridges (son of Actor Lloyd Bridges) plays the hero with the numbstruck charm of a tarnished cherub. Ben believes totally in America's favorite myth: the up-from-nothing success story. So believing, he becomes living proof of that other American truism: there's a sucker born every minute. Ben runs away to Chicago, sin city, carnival to a million peculators in wheat, meat and railways. Pickpockets, exposure and starvation nearly do him in until the boy comes under the wing of a municipal madam named Queen Lil (Melina Mercouri). Lil's most valued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tarnished Cherub | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Surely here is another proof of not only the evil but also the idiocy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 19, 1969 | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...assertion about a long-lasting residue. I do not feel it is appropriate for me to comment here on whether I look like a heroin user, but I will point out that the method currently employed by the Mass. Red Cross to screen heroin users is not fool-proof: the potential donor need only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail BLOOD | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

Grinspoon also attacks popular conceptions about the effect of grass on its users. Research. he agrees, has not yet produced any proof that smoking pot leads to violent behavior, sexual debauchery, or even to harder drugs. and there have been studies that give evidence to the contrary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS BRIEFS | 12/6/1969 | See Source »

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