Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climactic battle may be imminent, but compares it to Saint-Ló, when the Allies burst out of the Normandy perimeter and began the great sweep to Berlin. There may be hard fighting ahead for the U.S., but once the I Corps challenge is met, Komer implies, it may prove to be "a downhill...
...quest for the presidency, Michigan's Governor George Romney-unlike any other potential candidate for 1968-has to prove that his religious beliefs will not influence his political decisions. Though Romney, a Mormon, has an admirable record as a civil rights advocate, he has yet to persuade most Negroes that he does not share his church's traditional belief that they are the sons of Cain (TIME, April...
...Duvalier, Haiti's official President-for-Life and Renovator of the Nation. The task of working up a suitable celebration fell to Director General of Tourism Luc Albert Foucard, who was appointed to his job shortly after he married Duvalier's daughter Nicole last December. To prove himself worthy-he and another Duvalier son-in-law are vying for the President's favor-Foucard pulled out all the stops...
...unravel the plot in one of his potty idyls. In this book, he sets out to tell the tale of a cuckoo American millionaire's efforts to steal an 18th century paperweight from an English manor house. What he also does in his incomparable way is to prove that, for a fellow who started effervescing back in the Edwardian era, he has a lot of bubble left in him yet. In fact, his fans will find that this book leaves P.G. about where he was before: one of the funniest writers of this and bygone times...
...Harvard golf team, playing its best match of the year, defeated a talented Brown team, 6-1, at Providence yesterday. Today, when the team hosts Cornell, it will be trying to prove that the victory was not a one-match fluke...