Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prove its point--that it represented most of the B&G workers--the Crafts Council called a strike in early June. Most of the B&G workers went on strike...
...vote" politics. Many students, especially members of Students for a Democratic Society, feel that the events of the past year indicate that the two-party mechanism is incapable of dealing with the war. And aside from the fact that 1968 (to say nothing of 1966) may prove them correct, the effect on voting patterns of television images and food costs has driven students to unconventional forms of political action...
Thus the pyrotechnic efforts by Kosygin to prove that Moscow meets its obligations. "The Soviet Union," he promised at the U.N., "will undertake all measures within its power, both in the United Nations and outside, in order to achieve the elimination of the consequences of aggression...
...planes destroyed by Israel. Another Cairo arrival was Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, the third man, with Kosygin and Brezhnev, in the Kremlin's collegial leadership. "The imperialists and their agents imagine that we have come here to exchange small talk," Podgorny told President Gamal Abdel Nasser. "But we will prove to them that we have come here for more than talk. We have come here to frustrate the designs of all conspirators...
...Sorrentino has 25 scars on his hands to prove that he was one of the best street fighters that Brooklyn's tough Fort Hamilton neighborhood ever had. By the time he was 20, he had flunked out of high school four times, had been booted out of the Marines and had lost 30 jobs. That was ten years ago. This month Joe Sorrentino, now 30, was valedictorian of Harvard Law School. "It has been a long journey to this honor," he told the commencement audience, in what was almost certainly the year's most moving graduation address...