Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists are far and away the best-organized, most cohesive political force in South Viet Nam, and in a free election could probably attract more votes than the population they currently control-perhaps getting as much as 35% of the vote in an early election. That might very well prove to be a plurality and, as the Saigon constitution is now written, would give them the country overnight-an outcome that would be hard for the U.S. to accept. If South Viet Nam ever does go Communist, the U.S. hopes that it would be only after a long political struggle...
...state" their moves toward deescalation. Johnson, moreover, spoke of "the chance that we will have to act promptly on additional military measures" in Viet Nam - a hint to some that the President was preparing for an increase in the fighting or bombing, perhaps even a final push to prove that the war can be won militarily. Johnson, however, was careful to preface his warning with the announcement that the U.S. has new cause for alarm in "evidence that a massive enemy effort is under...
...time of testing for all concerned is thus far from over. Indeed, it may well be just beginning. Freedom is a high-spirited experience, and Dubček has yet to demonstrate that freedom and Communism can be combined. The Kremlin seems to have given him a chance to prove...
Pyramid of Wisdom. The likelihood that Humanae Vitae would prove to be a dead letter within months after its publication raised a far more fundamental ecclesiastical question, the role of papal authority in the church. Many theologians contend that there has been an unhealthy overemphasis on the teaching voice of Rome since the definition of papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council in 1870. In effect, the church has been a pyramid, with all wisdom flowing downward from the top. Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council suggested the possibility of a more democratic, decentralized concept of Catholicism. Paul...
...zips in and out of two or three cities in a single day. Now, in New York at least, he can rent a place to hold private business meetings or relax between engagements without paying the full 24-hour tariff. The Hilton's Day-Hour Plan should also prove a boon to suburban wives who need somewhere to put themselves back together after a day of shopping before meeting their husbands for an evening on the town...