Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giants can continue to reach specific accommodations, it will not prove that either is turning soft. Each respects the other's power. Each knows the price and the risks of an endless arms race and repeated confrontations. Thus each concedes to the other, however bitterly, a degree of latitude within its own sphere. The system is not ideal, and it is certainly not moral, but it has one unassailable virtue: so far, it has worked. Also, it can buy time for men like Alexander Dubcek, and others inside and outside the Communist domain, to continue striving, in some form...
...first-ballot votes for their man (needed to nominate: 1,312). Nonetheless, some Humphrey supporters were fearful that the whole operation was coming unstuck and that a delay in the convention-whether as a result of prolonged floor fights, paralyzing disorders outside the hall or anything else -could prove dangerous. The fact is that Humphrey has thus far failed to make much of an impression on the electorate or to demonstrate that he is his own man, not Lyndon Johnson...
...monument, the symbol of Czechoslovakia's historic quest for liberty. Everywhere, paratroops in purple berets stood guard alongside tank crews in full battle dress, cradling automatic rifles in their laps. In swiftness of execution, the invasion had been a model military operation. But the occupation was soon to prove quite another matter in ways that the Soviets had not foreseen. The Czechoslovaks, as the invaders discovered to their discomfiture, were simply not impressed...
...Czechoslovakia. The ar mies of both countries were put on alert. Tito and Ceausescu were concerned enough over Czechoslovakia, in fact, to get together for talks in the Yugoslav village of Ursac. The two considered calling for a European Communist Party summit to deal with the crisis. That might prove to be a highly uncomfortable gathering for Moscow (see following story...
Such tactics often prove remarkably successful. Last fall 800 Los Angeles County probation officers deliberately dragged their heels on the job, winning a reduction of case loads in the process. Far more dramatic is the current slowdown by Federal Aviation Administration air-traffic controllers, which has snarled airports in metropolitan New York and elsewhere with flight delays. Unhappy over a manpower shortage and congested skyways, the traffic controllers have been playing strictly by the rule book in clearing planes for take-offs and landings. They scored one breakthrough earlier this month when Congress empowered the FAA to hire an additional...