Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians are frustrated by their inability to exchange some of the benefits they bestow for real political power. Recognizing the Islamic aversion to Communism, they are forced to ignore the local Communist parties, which are outlawed in most Arab countries, and deal with governments that often prove recalcitrant. The Russians have been unable to influence the Syrians toward moderation, and Nasser refuses their advice as often as he takes it. The deeper their penetration becomes, the more they are bound to be caught up in the bitter quarrels and mutual hatreds that rack the Middle East. Moreover, they know full...
...head his bus for Hinckley, Ohio, where, like the swallows of Capistrano, a flock of buzzards returns every year, for what has become an annual Buzzard Festival. All this is hardly bulletin matter. Yet, if nothing else, the enthusiastic response of viewers to Kuralt's vignettes does prove, as he says, that "the definition of television news needs broadening...
...Isolated Charges. There are a number of obvious and not so obvious openings to the prosecutor. To begin with, he need only prove that the defendants knowingly agreed to commit a crime. In some states, he needs to prove nothing else. In others, and under federal law, he must prove that afterward at least one overt act in the direction of the crime was committed by at least one conspirator...
Tonight, the Harvard freshmen take on their counterparts from Dartmouth at the IAB in what could prove to be their toughest game of the year. "If they beat Dartmouth there is no reason why they can't win all the rest of them," Harrington said yesterday...
...sooner you take a donor," he noted, "the better the donor organ is going to be. Say you wait 24 hours. At present you can't use those organs." Asked if he foresaw a possible black market of hearts, Austen replied, "If these operations eventually prove to be worthwhile, then it will get tough. I just can't see how physicians could be influenced by anything but need, but I know that's naive. Somewhere it's going to have to be pretty carefully thought...