Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That may prove a premature and overly pessimistic prognosis, uttered in the midst of an engagement that left a sour taste in many an American's mouth. But there was no denying that Ben Het raised serious doubts about the military feasibility of American plans for orderly early withdrawal and disengagement in Viet...
...final analysis, such mediating efforts did not prove sufficient to avert the crisis of last April. That this was so should be no reflection on the ability or good faith of Dean Glimp, but rather a comment on the enormity of the demands placed upon universities such as Harvard in this era, and on the limits of universities, as complex organizations, to respond to demands as quickly as some might wish...
...will prove a fine addition to our reference shelves."--Jean M. Murdock, Librarian, Public Library, West Bridgewater, Massachusetts...
...Paris' Galerie Andre-Frangois Petit. Amazingly, the colors are as bright as the day Ernst painted them, and each of the 14 canvases carries something of that breathless, rarefied atmosphere of in sight and abandon in which they were created. More important, perhaps, notes Paintei Andre Masson, they prove that Ernst was a precursor as far as Sur realism was concerned. "While the rest of us were still formulating our ideas, he already had his foot in the door...
...capacity of women to love scoundrels," writes Orville Prescott, "is one of the abiding marvels of the world." Prescott may be right. In this compendium of scoundrels, he offers much evidence to prove his point. Galeazzo Sforza, for instance, was so cruel that he once had a courtier, fallen from favor, nailed up in a chest. Then, the story goes, he gleefully listened to the dying man's moans. Still, when assassins cut Sforza down at the door of a church, his wife, the Duchess Bona of Milan, mournfully wrote to Pope Sixtus IV, declaring that "after...