Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under No Gun. Like most proposed reforms, Nixon's looked fine on paper. Whether in fact they will prove more efficacious than the present system is uncertain. Much will depend on the quality of the brainpower assembled under Kissinger, the ability of the State Department and the Pentagon to function more independently than at present while still satisfying the President, and whether the pace and press of developments abroad permit the top echelon of Government the luxury of deep thought...
...plaster cloths are applied. In the case of nudes, Vaseline is used wherever the plaster might pull on body hair. But Segal can never cast the whole figure in one piece-a complete cast would cut off the body's pores from the outer air and might prove as lethal to the model as gold paint was to the hapless girl in Goldfinger...
...exuberantly forecast that before the decade was over Detroit would sell 10 million cars in a year. Cole has since been promoted to the presidency of the world's biggest manufacturer, partly because of his record of seeing the future clearly, but his fellow automakers have yet to prove him right in his most optimistic prediction. This year, however, they will come tantalizingly close...
...power, visionary Demasiado goes on scheming for American (or Russian) money to build a dream capital in the jungles of his country. Aspinwall goes on fighting to prove that honesty, if not justice, will prevail in political affairs. As the author records in lean, reportorial prose, in any struggle to salvage both dignity and power from such a situation, the winner takes nothing. Well, almost nothing...
Nonetheless, the star of the evening had to be its director, Charles Heckschet. His clever stagings combine perfectly with choreographer Barbara Clark's dance numbers--and in the close quarters of the Leverett old library that attests to a happy collaboration. If that doesn't prove Heckschet's worth, watch him as The Girl's Father--a part he had to take over a few days ago. He doesn't look old enough, he can't quite sing, but his intricate vaudeville routines are delightful...