Word: prove
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Against Brown this afternoon at Cumnock Field, however, Coach Bruce Munro's stickmen will be facing a team that is itself out to prove something. The Bruins, perennially strong in lacrosse and 14-5 conquerors of the Crimson last year, were stunned, 9-3, by Princeton last weekend, and will be out to show that they are still to be reckoned with as an Ivy League power...
When changes are made in the hierarchy of the Soviet Union, they often prove to be a case of strapping the same old collars onto fresh dogs. Last week the Kremlin named two men to top posts in the Soviet hierarchy, one to wield the sword and the other the pen. Though the shifts indicated no policy changes, they did produce new names and faces that the West will be hearing and seeing for some time...
...foreclosed me in getting a fair trial. I will not kowtail to you or anyone else." Having thus blathered on, he next stood "mute" when asked if he had been convicted twice before. He had, of course, but by refusing to say so he forced the state to prove it before a jury...
...time, he happened to be onstage in a new off-off-Broadway drama called Life with the Family, and playing the toughest role of his career: being himself. Schultz believes that real eating-talking-sleeping life has all "the pathos, humor and drama of the theater." To prove it, three weeks ago he and his sons Lyle, 4, and Elan, 5, a jazz musician named Marzette, 28, and three dogs and a cat set up house on the stage of the Headquarters theater in Manhattan's East Village-and invited the public to drop in at any hour...
...whether or not the old publish-and-be-damned motto is compatible with modern journalism. Reston aptly describes the plight of a reporter who is faced with the decision of whether or not to print information which might be used as propaganda in the cold war, or which might prove diplomatically embarrassing to our government. The question is best presented through example; first, should reporters have exposed the Bay of Pigs adventure; second should reporters have published Kennedy's plan to intercept Russian ships carrying missiles to Cuba. Presumably in the first instance they might have saved the U.S. from...