Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question remained: would the theory prove practical in space? To find out, NASA engineers installed television cameras inside the SIV B's hydrogen fuel tank. All through the acceleration of blastoff, and while the Saturn I first stage was pushing the SIV B aloft, the TV screens at the Houston control center showed the liquid hydrogen settled and calm on the bottom of the tank, its surface barely rippling. After the first stage had dropped away and the SIV B's engine was fired to insert it into orbit, the level of the liquid hydrogen could be seen...
...BONHEUR. Young love and marriage prove to be mixed blessings in French Director Agnès Varda's cynical fable of infidelity, superficially as pastel and pretty as a Renoir painting...
Next day, as if to prove his point, the Seamen's Union executive council, non-Communists all, voted an end to the 45-day-old strike that had idled 26,000 seamen, tied up some 900 ships, and may already have cost the British economy perhaps as much as $300 million. There was no reason not to, since the seamen had obtained nearly everything they wanted: a reduction of the work week to 40 hr. by next June (meaning more overtime), plus the promise of a whopping 48 days of annual leave. The settlement will increase the shipowners...
...French press has been running alarmist accounts of what it calls the rise of neo-Nazism. The biggest shocker to date appeared last month in Paris Match. Headlines blared: "These are the Nazis of 1966. Their success disturbs Germany. They have forgotten nothing. They have understood nothing." To prove the point, the magazine ran two pictures of young men decked out in Nazi regalia; in one they are saluting a bust of Hitler and in another, so the story said, they are carousing and singing the Horst Wessel song...
China's entry into the U.N. poses some difficult questions, Pye admitted. While both the United States and Russia disagree within the framework of the U.N., China might prove a more revolutionary member and try to radically change the power structure, he said...