Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work with students and administrators to achieve important academic reforms. Pass-fail courses are only one of the major innovations which he leaves behind in Harvard College. Norr is well-qualified to represent student sentiment on the Overseers, and there is every reason to believe that he will prove an able and energetic member of the Board...
Next year's team will be long on running backs and linebackers, but must prove itself at quarterback and in the line...
...from "bringing student radicals back into the system," as the national press has analyzed it, the McCarthy campaign will probably prove to be one of the major radicalizing forces of the late...
...American way of life, though, has to prove itself. Introspective and analytical, this year's graduate may buy it after all?but not without a good deal of criticism and suspicion. "People have always accepted our system without question," says Penn Senior Dennis Wilen in one of those crashing oversimplifications that ignore history. "My class will not stand for that." The questioning extends well beyond the Johnson Administration's rationale for the Viet Nam war to the inevitability of capitalism and the viability of present political systems. The graduates insist that there is a need to fight injustices at home...
...could avoid a big land war by using "cheap" airpower to bomb the North. But the result, Wicker argues, was that Johnson simply created in the South big airbases that invited guerrilla attack and required all the more U.S. troops for their protection. Not only did the Northern bombing prove relatively ineffective against the Southern enemy; it was also difficult to halt, for fear of handing Hanoi a psychological victory...