Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are, after all, relatively few steps that need be taken to lower the level of violence in Viet Nam, however difficult each may prove to be in practice. Speaking not as a candidate for President, Hubert Humphrey has called for an immediate cease-fire in Viet Nam. A good many Viet Nam experts question whether a cease-fire ought to be the first step in reducing hostilities since, like the oft-violated Jet truces, it would provide no assurance against local violence or massive Communist resupply and buildup in contested areas. Some allied military men nonetheless favor the idea...
George Curry to some degree confirms Crooks' observation. "People look at you like you are some kind of specimen. You go in with the idea that you have to prove that you're as good as they are, or with the aim of getting--quote--accepted--unquote...
...have to agree with the statement made by Georgia Herrick: "I was trying to prove something to myself, a reaffirmation of the liberal beliefs I had been brought up under." It seems to me that usually this is the reason why a Negro dates a white, or the other way around. Few couples are ready to cope with the problems of interracial dating. They are, whether they admit it or not, bound by society's taboos, and these rules do not allow them the openness needed for a good relationship...
...long haul, however, some of the proposed economies may prove damaging. Last week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a $1.9 billion foreign aid bill-a cut of more than $1 billion from the amount that the President requested and the smallest authorization in the 21-year history of the foreign aid program. The committee, whose leaders have repeatedly complained in the past that they have been denied a voice in foreign policy, thus voted to blunt one of its more effective instruments...
...notion of Henry the Hot-Blooded-inspired by his succession of six wives-Scarisbrick tempers it with cool practicality. "Henry was probably neither a remarkably accomplished nor endearing lover," he writes, but simply a man driven by the "need to beget progeny in sufficient quantity to prove himself and assure his dynasty...