Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elevator during last year's World Series seems to reflect the same willingness to trade the truth for attention. No one, after all, ever found the fans Steinbrenner claims to have punched out. Schaap accounts for the "phantom punch" by suggesting that the bruised fist the owner raised as proof of his triumph actually resulted from Steinbrenner's striking the elevator wall himself, enraged after the Bombers' loss...
...like to own it." In fact, Columbia's glitches, with the exception of the radio breakdown, were all relatively minor, and it was unfortunate that they obscured the mission's true importance. By making a record-breaking third voyage into space, Columbia was providing stunning proof of NASA's basic vision: that the U.S. could build and operate a spacecraft capable of moving in and out of orbit with the reliability of a commercial jet flying between terrestrial cities...
...little fashion business," says Armani, 47, who preferred to present his collection to small groups of buyers. News that drifted out from these private sessions-plus the resplendent showing of a line of suedes and leathers in high-noon colors that Armani designed for Mario Valentino-was sufficient proof that he was still secure atop Stutz's Alps. His absence from the collections-the very term weighty with a self-seriousness completely at variance with Armani's stylings-rebounded loudly and probably widely, at least to Paris, where the French are strutting their stuff this week. Hard pressed...
...powerful oligarchy. It was to be expected that I would be attacked with these false words because we were the first to recognize what was coming over our country. We interrupted the plans they [the "subversives"] had. They focused their attention on us. But have they presented proof of their charges...
...forces-the essence of a rebel propaganda broadcast-the graybeards picked the story apart. Only a handful of bodies had been found. There was no trace of large numbers of others. If 5,000 people had been there, they had been made to disappear without leaving a shred of proof...