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Word: proofing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sound of bullets hitting the ship's hull rattled the crew. Rogers, said Crowe, had to assume that "the relentlessly closing" aircraft, which had taken off from a Bandar Abbas airport used by the military, was part of the Iranian attack unless he could prove otherwise. Said Crowe: "The proof never came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neither Negligent Nor Culpable | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...necessary to fling tea in his face. That may be the ultimate reward. For after some 75 pictures, three Oscar nominations, innumerable charity works and goodwill tours, and a Medal of | Freedom from the President, the 71-year-old star is finally ready to cede the spotlight. As proof, he records a chance meeting with a beautiful admirer. "I suck in my gut, puff out my chest, slap a bicep. In a velvet voice, she says, 'Wow! Michael Douglas's father!' " Issur should live so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buried Child THE RAGMAN'S SON | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...almost never true." Almost never true, that mentally or emotionally distressed people seek help voluntarily? For his thesis to be persuasive, Masson needs to establish the notion of a vast, coercive system for bringing people into line and, if that fails, storing them away in cruel institutions. But his proof, to put it mildly, is highly subjective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Shrink Has No Clothes AGAINST THERAPY | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...think of as the American Dream of success: his factory produced only a few dozen cars before it closed. But there is another more common, more potent American Dream, which involves not the invention of products but the invention of self. And this movie, genial and fierce, is proof of Tucker's success in that more basic line. And proof of its sure grip on our imaginations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: On The Road to Utopia TUCKER: THE MAN AND HIS DREAM Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Screenplay by Arnold Schulman and David Seidler | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...they cannot work or travel and are subject to arrest. Near the Erez checkpoint on the Israeli border, Gaza drivers lined up every day starting at 3 a.m. for license plates that specifically identify the car owner's camp or town. At Gaza military headquarters, other Palestinians waited for proof-of-tax-payment stamps that they need to obtain travel permits and birth certificates. All the red tape is intended to rebuild Gaza's dependence on Israel and, incidentally, provide the government with up-to-date information on Palestinians living in the strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebellion with A Cause | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

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