Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey must now make an aggressive effort to prove that the Democrats who clamor for change do not have to change parties. Humphrey must also buck the widespread reaction against student protests, the militant assertion of Negro rights and other sources of domestic strife. "There may be a tendency to conservatism in the country right now," he acknowledges. "If you let the country move that way, it will. I have no intention of letting it." If he means it, and at the risk of being punished by this trend, Humphrey is clearly seeking his natural ground to Nixon...
Onganía's victory over his rival may prove Pyrrhic. Though two of the ousted service chiefs are to be given attractive ambassadorships, Alsogaray plans to stay in Argentina. His brother Alvaro resigned his post in Washington and is returning home. If they can attract enough supporters to contest Onganía's dominance of the government, together they hope to find a way to head Argentina back along the road to democracy...
...over, Spain's Francisco Franco, 75, had landed himself a 48,000-lb. trophy. Franco's favorite finny prey is salmon, but this was far from his first whale. Over the years he has snagged more than 20 of the leviathans, and he has the pictures to prove it decorating the cabins of his boat...
...with personal negligence leading to the marketing of an unsafe and insufficiently tested drug. The trial promises to last at least two years and will be divided into two main phases: 1) an effort to show that the damage was indeed caused by thalidomide; and 2) an attempt to prove that Grünenthal's executives were knowingly responsible and negligent. Last week, in a courtroom in Alsdorf, near Aachen, the prosecution moved deep into Phase...
...anything, these samples prove that today's politicians are much too polite, not to say unimaginative, in their terminology. Satire's best entry is, alas, hardly ever heard these days. It is snollygoster, a word that Harry Truman revived briefly in 1952. According to Truman, a snollygoster was a son of a bitch - in other words, a politician. It is probably related to snallygaster, which is derived from the German schnelle Geister, or "quick spirits." In Maryland, the snallygaster is a mythical bird of prey that feeds on unwary poultry and children. In 1895, a Georgia editor described...