Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent divisions in City politics might, Mahoney said, actually attract applicants. "It would be a real challenge... to prove that you were good enough to rise above politics and make yourself indispensable...
Once the conspiracy has been proved, all of the various participants can be held responsible for anything that any one of them may have done in furtherance of the conspiracy. This is particularly valuable in organized-crime cases. When Lucky Luciano was convicted for compulsory prostitution in the '30s, for instance, he was guilty in part because of conspiracy. In a case like the Spock-Coffin indictment, the Government also does not need to prove an endless list of isolated charges. Instead, says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, "it would like to paint the picture of a widespread agreement...
With the average length of retirement now 13 years, the threat of inflation means that the cash value of a family's life insurance could well prove inadequate to its old-age needs. As a hedge, more and more Americans are turning to mutual funds, which, after all, promise growth instead of fixed returns. Rather than fight the swing to mutuals, the insurance industry itself is enthusiastically joining...
...Review of Metaphysics; he ranks among the leading speculative philosophers in the U.S. His son Jonathan, 28, is a pragmatic attorney and social activist who has earned a reputation as defender of the rights of juveniles and welfare recipients in Washington and New York. Together, father and son prove that the much decried generation gap can be bridged by the application of intelligence and reason...
Some good acting gets lost in Nichols' vain attempt to prove himself a purveyor of cinematic pizazz. Bancroft and Hoffman are more capable than the script or direction allows them to demonstrate: Bancroft disappears altogether, and Hoffman is forced into too many blankfaced ambiguous close-ups. Katherine Ross's perfect pre-Raphaelite beauty overshadows her valiant attempt to create something from nothing, an attempt which almost succeeds (as if it matters whether anyone so gorgeous can act). The Graduate's best performance comes from Murray Hamilton as cuckolded Mr. Robinson, an all-too-tangential figure in the proceedings...