Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strange that the same issue of TIME that discusses the possible death of the organized church [April 12] should memorialize a black preacher who changed a nation from a thousand pulpits? The life and death of Martin Luther King would prove more than enough to accent the meaning and power of the church today...
...March, the Student Mobilization Committee announced a campaign to register anti-war sentiment in the Time poll. A spokesman for the anti-war group said that Time is "trying to prove that the anti-war movement does not speak for students...
...Cole to hit an easy double-play grounder. Second baseman Phil Smith took the throw from short-stop Jeff Grate for the first out, but threw the ball far over first baseman Joe Ignaclo's head. Two runs scored on the error and the M.I.T. lead was to prove insurmountable...
...true that, until last week, the University force had not fired a shot for at least six years; but that statistic doesn't prove they don't need weapons. Some professional law enforcers go through whole careers without discharging their weapons--while the same guns save the lives of their buddies. Most professionals also insist that arms have a crucial preventive effect. Trouble-makers are less likely to challenge an armed officer even in dark and remote surroundings...
...Justice Holmes' famous example, shouts fire in a crowded theatre is liable to prosecution. Spock and the four others are accused of interfering with the operation of the Selective Service System by verbally counselling young men to defy its regulations, and if the government can prove that their speech was the direct cause of someone's lawbreaking, they may well be convicted...