Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success in 1963's limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and he considered it one of his greatest achievements. Now, in the waning months of his presidency, Lyndon Johnson can take satisfaction from a comparable feat-and can claim credit for having set the stage for another that could prove even more historic...
...proportion that has held steady ever since prison records were first kept. Between 1930 and the present, 2,066 blacks have been put to death, against 1,751 whites. Among the commonest capital charges against Negroes, especially in the South, has been rape, which is extremely difficult to prove. Yet rape convictions have accounted for executions of 405 Negroes compared with 50 of whites...
Whether the substance of the assembly will prove as avant-garde as its style remains to be seen. But the World Council's General Secretary Eugene Carson Blake warned that "the ecclesiastical establishment worldwide had better look hard to try to discern what God is now requiring of us as we are disturbed by the rods of anger." Added Ceylon's Pastor Niles: "Everywhere in our world today events are taking place which reveal that God is doing a new thing among...
...crony he certainly is; yet this assessment could prove to be unfair. A protegé of Sam Rayburn's, the late Speaker of the House, and of Johnson's, Thornberry had an indifferent record during his first years in Congress, but eventually established himself as a man of moderately liberal views, responsive to the needs of an urban America. In 41 years on the bench, most recently as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (covering most of the Deep South and the Panama Canal Zone), he consistently fought segregation...
...students who started France's near revolution. And even after most of the workers, who they had hoped would prove to be more durable allies, had returned to their jobs, the students still held out in the Sorbonne. Now that stronghold, too, has fallen to the cops, elections have been held, and France is at least temporarily back to normal. But the students' rebellion will long be remembered in France and elsewhere. Their grievances, with which the Gaullist Government will have to deal, are of special interest to American students. On the surface, their complaints are similar...