Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combat and gentle in his regard for the Vietnamese. He can clean out a bunker load of Viet Cong with a knife and two hand grenades, or offer smokes to a captured V.C. and then squat beside him trying to communicate in bastard Vietnamese. He may fight to prove his manhood-perhaps as a corrective to the matriarchal dominance of the Negro ghetto back home-or to save Viet Nam for a government in Saigon about which he himself is cynical. Mostly, though, he fights for the dignity of the Negro, to shatter the stereotypes of racial inferiority...
...American Civil Liberties Union, was so astonished at the ruling that war-crimes evidence would be heard that it had none to offer immediately. Instead Morgan won a recess until this week and called on antiwar propagandists to volunteer proof of his statement: "I think we can prove there is a policy of eradication of the Vietnamese people who won't support our side...
Charles Lindbergh's flight occurred 40 years ago last week, and no one under 50 can fully appreciate what it meant. It became America's national saga, all the more classic because its hero was to be shadowed by tragedy and did not prove to be free of flaws. "Slim" Lindbergh looked like the original country rube, with cowlick and baggy breeches, and he stirred folk memories; there was about him something of the raggedy fellow at the Sherwood tournament who outshoots the sheriff's best archers...
...spoke for most when he declared: "He stood forth amidst clamor and crowds, the very embodiment of fearless, kindly, cultivated American youth-unspoiled, unspoilable. A nation which breeds such boys need never fear for its future." Young Lindbergh seemed engagingly modest, and remarked that he had merely wanted to prove the possibilities of future air travel and the need for commercial airports...
...anesthetic; a cheaper, generic-named form simply did not anesthetize in some cases, and in others the effect wore off too soon. Besides potency and purity, there are 20 to 30 other types of difference between drugs, most of them too subtle for routine Government testing. But some may prove important for certain patients. "Our conclusion," reported the Sadove team; "is that generic equivalency is frequently a fable without basis in fact...