Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...determined to prove that it takes more than "a little stitchin' " to slow down a Johnson, the President maintained almost as arduous a schedule as if he were back in the White House. About the only difference was his sparing use of the telephone and-initially, at least-of his voice. "I don't have volume," he complained...
...repeal Section 14 (b) of the Taft-Hartley Act (the right-to-work provision), which triggered a long and bitter filibuster even in the liberal 89th. Equally bleak is labor's chance of getting restrictions on construction-site picketing eased. By contrast, the 90th Congress may prove far more receptive than the 89th to further limitations on strikes-such as airline stoppages-that have national repercussions...
...fourth. Foes of federal aid to church schools were jubilant. They had sought the Maryland test because there seems to be no way to attack federal programs directly. According to a 1923 Supreme Court decision, federal taxpayers cannot sue, charging misuse of federal taxes, unless they can prove substantial personal injury, which is virtually impossible. Although Congress could probably provide for judicial review by taxpayers' suit, such provisions have been deliberately omitted from federal education legislation...
...Buzz Baker came to see me in the spring of his freshman year and asked to play. It took a year of work on the JV for him to prove himself. It the last two seasons, he has been our most consistently good player...
Fahrenheit 451 may not prove to be the flash point of the average moviegoer, but it should work up a gentle glow among the many admirers of Director Truffaut. Filming for the first time in English, he loses nothing but one elegant Gallic pun-in the original scenario the French words for "book men" and "free men" are combined in a portmanteau phrase: les hommes-livres. Filming for the first time in color, he employs it with admirable tact to contrast God's green world with man's grey life...