Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday Times, 20,000 tons of chrome ore arrived in Tokyo from "South Africa," and for the 27th time in six months the British embassy lodged a protest with the Japanese government. This time they backed their arguments with an ore sample stolen from dockside and chemically analyzed to prove its Rhodesian origin. The Japanese coolly replied that since the chrome bore South African certificates, it must be from South Africa...
...attempts to safeguard poets or artists; it is generally overlooked that, by the very character of their profession, a scratch may prove mortal...
...scratch of a pen that grated Stalin could prove mortal to its author, and Ilya Ehrenburg set out to safeguard himself from an early, flowered grave. Survive he did, earning the epithet of panderer and opportunist from his detractors. Ehrenburg survived not only the Revolution (he published his first books of poems while the Czar was still on his throne) but all the turns and terrors of successive Soviet regimes...
Jackson was certainly down. The unemployment office still refused to recognize his eligibility for compensation because Linsenmeyer had appealed the judgment, leaving Jackson technically unable to prove his employment. He was told, however, that in order to keep his claim alive he would have to refile it every week. He had a pickup truck, but it needed five tires and work on the engine. So for 100 straight weeks, Jackson hitchhiked the 28-mile round trip between his cottage and the city to re-enter the fruitless unemployment application. The rest of the time he tended the vegetable garden that...
...disparate chapters of his life. Still, Thief has a number of hidden treasures, notably the subtle, restrained performances of Belmondo and Genevieve Bujold against the richly reconstructed backdrop of period Paris. As a film, it all adds up to nothing, but as De Gaulle has taken pains to prove, no one says nothing so grandly as the French...