Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golfers boast a 7-1 record, but today's contest will prove the true mettle of the team...
...instance, overlaps the possibility that the bearded Negro may be part of an interracial couple. The 12 million to 1 figure, therefore, was just "wild conjecture." In addition, there was not complete agreement among the witnesses about the characteristics in question. "No mathematical equation," added the court, "can prove beyond a reasonable doubt (1) that the guilty couple in fact possessed the characteristics described by the witnesses, or even (2) that only one couple possessing those distinctive characteristics could be found in the entire Los Angeles area...
...revolution may have passed him by. For frantic sex Avant-Garde is miles behind Evergreen (TIME, March 29) and not far ahead of Cosmopolitan. But Ginzburg protests that Evergreen's sex is "somewhat excremental," while Avant-Garde is pitched at the "genital level. Sexy, yes. Dirty, no." To prove his point, he says that forthcoming issues will carry an eight-page super-fold-out of a life-sized woman, as well as details on a private collection of pubic hairs garnered from celebrities...
...bright and exquisitely sculpted phenomena, death waits." It was a full-dress religious crisis lasting several months, and Updike says now that he got through it only by clinging to the stern, neo-orthodox theology of Switzerland's Karl Earth. In Earth's uncompromising view, reason can prove only that the nonexistence of God is absurd; the positive assertion, that God does exist, can come only by means of revelation...
Jarvis has played brilliant tennis at number two singles and boasts a perfect record. Like Howell, he relies upon accurate ground strokes and an aggressive strategy. Endurance could prove decisive in this evenly-matched contest...