Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These assumptions, of course, may prove too neat. Unity is essential for a minority party, but the G.O.P. may find the price tag troublesome. Does harmony require straddling at the expense of commitment? Does it mean combining the vocabulary of change with the policies of conservatism? The convention offered mixed portents...
...Poverty's first three years, said the report, "1,700,000 whites and more than 700,000 nonwhites a year crossed the threshold compared with an average of 840,000 whites and 80,000 nonwhites each year in 1959-64." The statistics, while impressive, may prove porous armor for OEO against its opponents once Congress reconvenes...
...Fellow Democrat Burns, called assemblymen to meet in defiance of the order. Despite a Republican boycott, the Democrats managed to pass two bills whose legality is thus automatically in question. Since one of the bills benefits workers injured on their jobs, Unruh expects labor unions to try to prove their validity in court...
...larger coalition government as part of the price of an accord with Hanoi, so the reasoning goes, or it is certain to collapse from its own infirmities once the prop of U.S. support and the urgency of waging a war is removed. That may or may not prove true. Meanwhile, President Nguyen Van Thieu's elected government continues to go about the necessary business of trying to govern while the Communists threaten a new wave of attacks on cities, aimed at toppling Thieu...
...Nigerian war. At the very least Biafran leaders are guilty of gross deceit. Only a few months ago they were proudly announcing to the world that the Biafran economy was running efficiently in spite of the war. At the time, these leaders considered it politically expedient to "prove" the viability of secessionist Biafra outside of a Nigerian federation. Nigerian reports of mass hunger were rejected out of hand, by pro-Biafrans, as propaganda attempts to lower the morale of those trapped in the secessionist kingdom. Now, however, the sordid truth of colossal human suffering is out. Biafra...