Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...live, the old customs survive. Fifty-three percent of Iranian women remain illiterate, and for them the only means of survival is marriage, their only protection the family. A girl is frequently married by her late teens. On the wedding night, her parents expect to be able to show proof of her virginity. The girl often goes to work and lives in her mother-in-law's house...
...notably by Japanese naval officers, who had picked up the taste from British seamen. He opened the first Japanese whisky distillery, using as working drawings for the equipment rough sketches of pot stills brought back from Scotland. Lighter and possessing slightly more body than most Scotch whiskies, premium 84-proof Suntory brands, which almost all Japanese drink mixed with water or soda, are deemed by many experts to be first-class blends...
...stonefaced. According to a White House aide, the President was dismayed by the lack of decorum on what was, in many respects, a formal state occasion. But Begin, who used to be quite a heckler himself when he was a deputy, seemed almost to relish the rowdiness as a proof of his repeated argument that his negotiating powers are limited by opposition in the Cabinet and Knesset...
...nuclear plants safe? The answer depends on the definition of "safe." If it means accident-proof, then the answer, as applied to anything from a bicycle to a steel mill, is no. A nuclear plant cannot blow up like an atomic bomb. A plant could, however, suffer a "meltdown" if it loses the water used to cool its uranium core, overheats, ruptures the core's container and releases a deadly cloud of radioactive gases. In the event of such an accident, people close to the plant would die quickly, while others, living as far as a couple of hundred...
MASTER THAT HE WAS, Shakespeare still didn't begin his career writing masterpieces, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona gives proof to that. In the past, critics spent a good deal of time trying to prove that "someone else" had written the parts of this play that are confusing, stiff, or downright silly. But even Shakespeare was once young and fallible, and this play is generally accepted now as a very early--if not the first--work of a great writer still marshalling his powers...