Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prove the point, NCCI sent an Englishman, a Hungarian, and a colored immigrant, all equally well qualified, in search of a job. They applied for the same position. The Englishman was never turned down, the Hungarian was turned down thirteen times and the colored person was turned down 27 times...
...next few years that will show whether the school system has succeeded in wiping out these initial disadvantages, or whether it is only maintaining them. If the schools fail to integrate the British-born children of immigrants, it will prove that British society as it is now constituted has failed to cope with, and indeed has succeeded in perpetuating, the problem...
...hors d'oeuvre of an actress can sometimes keep playgoers nibbling on toothpick drama. Broadway's latest dramatic toothpicks. Daphne in Cottage D and There's a Girl in My Soup, are inane, inept, tacky, trivial, and implausible, but Sandy Dennis and Barbara Ferris may yet prove potent teasers of the public palate...
...dash through the second act at twice the proper speed. The beggar's dance is frolicsome when it should be ferocious; the possession of the bride by the dybbuk is dispatched before the full terror of the assault can be developed. Marilyn Pitzele as Leye, the bride, manages to prove herself a fine actress amid the swirl. With her brash girl friends hustled off-stage and her sing-song grandmother, (Barbara Thompson) silenced by the script, Miss Pitzele displays a sullenness of movement, and a finely modulated tremulo ideal for the role...
...Axten, jogging around the field, trying to get into shape, after a four-week layoff, and Locksley hobbling by, hoping to be ready for next week's game, and there in the nets is Breese, still a little weak on shots over his head, but very, very anxious to prove that...