Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...careful placing and size of an electrical charge is the key to Peri-Start, a machine built on the principle of the cardiac pacemaker. It electronically stimulates the muscles of bladder and colon and controls elimination in a paralyzed patient. In the future, the same technique may well prove practical for other muscles...
Sandy Koufax got the Dodgers back on the track by beating the Cards 2-1 for his 26th victory of the year. But meanwhile the Pirates were doing their best to prove that reports of their death were exaggerated. "Take the nails out of the coffin!" Manager Harry Walker shouted after Pittsburgh swept a doubleheader from the Philadelphia Phils and cut the Dodgers' lead to 1½ games...
...they liked it and were sure their families would watch it," recalls Herbert, "but they were just as sure that 'the masses' wouldn't." With a nationwide chain of 105 educational channels scheduled to telecast the Experiment series by next spring, the masses could-and should-prove them wrong...
William S. Paley, chairman of the board of CBS, last week said that he would "always think of David Sarnoff as broadcasting's most imaginative prophet." Paley, admitting that he has "the scars to prove" years of fierce competition with the RCA board chairman, was speaking to 1,500 friends at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner honoring Sarnoffs 60 years in the communications industry. "To all of us," said Paley, "David will always be broadcasting's Man of the Future...
Adams and Frost certainly did prove that dissent on Vietnam is no super-highway to political power --in Massachusetts, New Jersey, or anywhere. But they knew that from the start. What doomed both campaigns was the fact that in American politics these days personality, organization and money are essentials; issues come into account only when the other factors cancel themselves...