Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Voters have not been impressed by these attempts to prove that Wallace is not a true conservative. They know that he has taken the acceptable position on states' rights, foreign policy, and crime in the streets. More important than these issues, however, is the South's overwhelming bitterness toward the federal guidelines for school desegregation. And everyone knows what Wallace thinks about that...
...appeal of a disruptive (as opposed to a peaceful) demonstration Friday is that it would clearly test the University's tolerance of violent dissent. Veterans of the October sit-in should avoid the fallacy that they have to prove their sincerity by playing confrontation politics with the Administration. They would be indulging in the same mindless, reflex escalation they rightly deplore in this country's Vietnam policy...
...substance. Bowles and Sihanouk agreed to ask the Southeast Asian International Control Commission to save Cambodia from drowning in the overflow of the Vietnam war. As a diplomatic exercise, the joint appeal may have been something of a success. But as a means of protecting Cambodia, the ICC would prove hopelessly inadequate...
...Yardlings will take on the slick Princeton freshman team Saturday at the IAB in what should prove to be one of the season's tightest battles...
...went to a diminutive and quiet-spoken Belgian, Jean Rey, the Common Market's Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. Since Rey's chief qualification at the time seemed to be that he was the only candidate De Gaulle would accept, the Common Market partners feared that he might prove to be merely a puppet for De Gaulle's disruptive ambitions...