Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tormentors. An article in the government newspaper Izvestia charged the BBC with "involvement in the most seamy operations" of British agents operating in Eastern European nations. One ploy, Izvestia reported, was to play certain tunes at prearranged times, thus enabling a British spy to forecast such events and so prove to local recruits that he was a bona fide spook. The BBC dismissed the charges as ridiculous, and in its own sly way mocked the paper's paranoia: "If there are any agents on the job in Moscow waiting for today's message," said a solemn-toned announcer...
...reform of university and school laws and press for increases in worker pensions. Rumor's skill in allotting posts across the coalition's entire range assures him of support from about 360 of the chamber's 630 deputies. All his agility as a compromiser may prove useless, however, unless he can quickly produce the social reforms that Italy so urgently needs...
...fairly interesting, noncommitted guy into some great liberal." After JFK was published, friends told Lasky that he was being investigated by a Department of Justice official, an act he blames on Robert Kennedy-and an act that may have been the genesis of RFK. "I can't prove he was personally involved," Lasky admits. "But maybe I was most influenced by the fear that he threw into my wife...
...intricate tangle of patents. An agreement made with the New York Times for creation of the first EVR educational films, for example, provides that CBS will share with the Times in both production and profits. Eventually, as one industry cynic observed last week, the mediocrity of network TV may prove to be a virtue by stimulating the sales...
Besides plugging for a more direct, personalized approach to psychosis, Brand's book theorizes earnestly about the oral sources of anxiety. Mixing pseudo fact with pseudo fiction makes fairly lively reading. But fiction is a flimsy vehicle for advancing a medical thesis. You cannot prove a theory with a novel. Or rather-and this is what psychologist-novelists like Brand will never quite admit-you can pretend to prove just about any theory you like...