Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state that our capacity to protest the events in Czechoslovakia has been weakened because of our involvement in Viet Nam. I suggest that besides withdrawing from Viet Nam, we could further strengthen our capacity to protest by withdrawing all U.S. forces from Europe and Asia. If our protests still prove to be ineffective in preventing more Czechoslovakias we could escalate our protesting capacity by unilateral disarmament...
...answer is that the dangers constituted by Dubcek's Czechoslovakia finally came, in their estimation, to outweigh all the dangerous consequences of invasion. The Kremlin leaders must have come to the conclusion that Czechoslovakia's experiment would sooner or later prove fatal to the system that they had so carefully constructed since World War II. Freedom of speech and of the press, the right of free assembly, criticism both from within the party and political clubs outside it-all threatened to un dermine and eventually destroy Eastern European Communism. Poland, Hungary, East Germany were all susceptible...
...rate, the Soviets pounced, and now must try to translate their military takeover of Czechoslovakia into a realization of the political ends that inspired it. It will not be easy. At best, the invasion was too clumsy and too late to rescue a vacillating policy. At worst, it may prove a disaster destroying forever Moscow's claim to leadership in the Communist world. It may temporarily halt the trend toward more freedom in Eastern Europe and shore up Russia's buffer against the outside world for a little longer. But ultimately, the invasion can only serve to encourage...
...Southern California landscape, there has sprung up like desert flowers a new variety of artists. They talk of a new esthetic ("art as a symbolic medium is dead"), but these young Angelenos are basically united only by a determination to prove that creativity and innovation can flourish outside New York's hegemony. "They are just isolated, friendly, ambitious young people who share a fierce outlook," says James Monte, a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Because they live in a backwater, they had to remake the whole scene...
Died. Paul Egan, 69, mayor of Aurora, Ill., from 1953 to 1961, whose antics drew national attention to the city of lights; of cancer; in Aurora. "When I first ran for mayor," said Egan, "they tried to prove I was crazy." He did little to prove otherwise, fired Aurora's entire police force (they refused to quit), called Khrushchev to enlist Red cops (no answer), and once demanded federal troops to put down an insurrection in the city council...