Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whirlwind summit conference with the leaders of South Viet Nam. Hordes of communications, security and transportation experts were already on the way, to be followed by nearly half the U.S. Cabinet, 125 other American and Vietnamese officials, two dozen Secret Service men, 354 newsmen. For Hawaiians, it was to prove the most harrowing ordeal since Maunaloa last blew...
Some U.S. officials in Saigon fear that Ky's flair, and above all his rapport with Americans, may well prove his undoing. It was probably no accident that yet another spate of coup rumors began to float through Saigon behind the news of Ky's impressive confrontation with Johnson in Hawaii. "We killed Khanh that way," ruminates one U.S. old hand in Saigon, recollecting how the U.S. Mission backed Khanh even when it was clear that the Young Turks had lost faith in his leadership. "And we are in real danger," he adds, "of killing Ky the same...
...most interesting article, Pan Africanism and the White Man's Burden, was written by Aryee Quaye Armah who graduated from Harvard in 1963 and is presently studying at the Institute for African Studies, University of Ghana. Armah attempts to prove that Pan-Africanism is not simply a reaction to British colonialism, but rather is an outgrowth of it. Summarizing his thesis, Ahmah says "that the seeds of Pan-Africanism can be found in Britain's imperial ideology, and that it is through the working out of the (British) ideology that Pan-Africanism came to fruition...
Measures like these, Coop officials say, are all that is needed to put textbooks on the shelves when students need them. They can prove that by getting some of the measures adopted between now and September and letting students see the results...
...usual delicate imagery ("The sun was thumbing its nose at the night"), characterization ("On some people skin is skin, but on her it was an invitation to dine"), and grammar ("You lay there, kid"; "I thought I could discern shouts"). As always, the forces of law, order and decency prove no match for Spillane's private eye, whose impatience with those virtues amounts to a crusade. The people who lay around reading Spillane books-50 million copies sold to date-must discern the same message...