Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kept up the flow of adulation for their martyred hero. Now, stung by the way in which the Americans spread word of Be's nonheroic non-death-he hid in a river while the battle raged-they have switched to a terror campaign to silence those who can prove his identity...
There were thus ample signs that the war may prove to be a long one, though the "battles" so far have been rather modest skirmishes. The federals, their lines overextended in places, were tending to stick to the roads, while the Ibos, on home ground, were more and more fighting a guerrilla-like war. The Biafrans hope soon to have sturdier stuff with which to fight. They have ordered more than $2.8 million in modern military equipment from abroad, and it is slowly seeping through the federal blockade...
Davis himself realizes his plight. "First cuts are next week," he said Saturday, "and I have yet to prove myself. The thing that counts is my one-on-one showing under game conditions. A player's showing in practice means almost nothing to the coaches...
...colleagues, including such contemporary reviewers as the New York Times's Harold Schonberg ("vulgarity and offensiveness"), and The New Yorker's Winthrop Sargeant ("deficiencies of critical perception, judgment and taste"). Recently, he wrote scornfully that Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing is "a bully" whose "monstrosities" prove him to be "not only without understanding of the special requirements of opera but without taste...
...real Africa, less of Texas, and no style at all. It patronizes the natives, shows the beasts in badly edited shots that unconvincingly mix footage of wild lions and tame humans. Tors has even included the ancient anthropomorphism of a pet monkey guzzling beer-which only goes to prove that successful films with monkeys in them can still be counted on the fingers of one foot...