Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PRETTY POISON, Homicide can be fun, as Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld prove in this small but stinging satire on violence in America directed by Noel Black, 31 whose previous experience has been mostly in educational and commercial...
...Health, Education and Welfare, Secretary Wilbur Cohen recently began a fundamental and potentially far-reaching change in federal policy governing the eligibility of relief recipients. At present, some potential recipients must undergo investigations of need that often prove demeaning. Under Cohen's proposed ruling, eligibility would be established on the basis of the applicant's own declaration. Twenty-seven states already use this controversial practice, usually relying on spot checks to discourage fraudulent declarations. Cohen has not yet issued a formal ruling to make the system nationwide, but he is likely to do so-and that would pose...
...zone. The new line was closely attuned to the views of Henry Kissinger, Nixon's White House Assistant for National Security Affairs, who believes that a two-track parley-involving parallel talks between the U.S. and North Viet Nam and between South Viet Nam and the guerrillas-may prove the quickest route to peace...
...transparent cape, which she swiftly discarded. To be sure, she moved with music, including such tunes as The Swim and Walking the Dog. Reluctant to act as dance critics, the court majority said that any dance is automatically entitled to First Amendment protection unless the state can prove that it is obscene. Relying on U.S. Supreme Court doctrine, the California justices declared that the state had the burden of proving that the dominant theme of Kelley's dance "taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest," is "utterly without redeeming social value" and affronts "contemporary community standards...
Effie won-apparently. When, encouraged by Millais, she finally fled to her parents and faced a public separation, she was able to prove that an annulment was justified. The scandal fell mainly on Ruskin, who had to pay damages for his marital neglect. But in falling chastely in love with Millais, was Effie not really falling into Ruskin's trap? Or was she merely a scheming baggage who outrageously embroidered her basic grievances for public consumption? The book leaves the matter in Piran-deloquent doubt...