Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...systems: "NASA inspects, reinspects and inspects again. NASA lives with us. You can't separate NASA from the contractor." Declining to ascribe blame at all, another aerospace official points out that in projects "on the forefront of technology, there just isn't any perfection." As if to prove that point, a General Electric Co. study made public last week itemized more than 1,300 flaws in an Apollo spacecraft being readied for an unmanned test flight later this year; most of the bugs were the kind that crop up routinely in early stage development of any complex technical...
...bound for an unwanted House can match the wrath of the student separated from his chosen roommate. The plaster wall of one fourth-floor corridor sports a newly-kicked hole to prove it. The kicker, who said the wall gave very easily, will be floating in Leverett and his roommate, in Dunster...
...Committee on Standards and Conduct has completed its first case study, it can return well-schooled to its original assignment, which was to write such a code. If and when the committee ever adopts a cogent set of standards for the conduct of a U.S. Senator, it may prove to be Tom Dodd's last, most significant contribution to political life...
...fair, which emphasizes business exhibits and often-irksome commercialism. Beyond that, Expo 67 was dreamed up expressly to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Canada's national birth, and thus is powered by the energies and imagination of a proud and thriving people who have long yearned to prove that their country is considerably more than the U.S.'s backwoods halfbrother. "Anyone who says we aren't a spectacular people should see this," said Pearson. "We are witness today to the fulfillment of one of the most daring acts of faith in Canadian enterprise and ability ever undertaken...
Napoleon Bonaparte, something of a master at the game himself, once complained that "all Italians are plunderers." Italian bankers often seem to agree with this ungenerous assessment of their countrymen. "Every citizen," says an old banking maxim, "is a swindler until he produces documents to prove the contrary." Taking that attitude, Italian banks, including those owned by the state, have rarely opened their cash drawers for small personal loans...