Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...polls build band wagons? The evidence thus far suggests that they may do just the reverse-as in 1948, when Harry Truman urged the public to "prove the polls wrong." If polls really sway voters, argues Gallup, Dewey would have won. But polls do present other problems. They give an edge to rich candidates, who can afford more and deeper polls than less affluent candidates. Old-line party chieftains worry that the polls have robbed them of some of their previous powers to dictate nominations-though few people would complain about that...
...magazine called Eros and the sale of a book called The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity. Decisions already in the law books told him that his products could only be proscribed if they had no redeeming social value- and he seemed to be challenging the Government to prove they did not. The Supreme Court answered the challenge by surprising Ginzburg with a new rule: his methods of advertising and distribution, said the court, made him guilty of peddling pornography. It upheld a five-year prison sentence, which Ginzburg is still trying to get reduced...
This time it is his motivation that is in question. It is not easy to prove libel to the satisfaction of higher courts when public figures are involved. To make a charge of libel stick, the Supreme Court has held, "there must be sufficient evidence to permit the conclusion that the defendant in fact entertained serious doubts as to the truth of his publication." If he did, he was guilty of recklessness and malice, and, as a result, libel. Ginzburg may yet persuade an appeals court that he was neither reckless nor malicious...
...every reporter's equipment," agrees Melvin Mencher, an associate professor of investigative reporting at the Columbia School of Journalism. Mencher, a former United Press reporter, says he always carried a second wallet when working on a story. The wallet contained a social security card and credit cards to prove whatever identity he had chosen. He advises his students to assume false identities when necessary, if for no other reason than to "become a part of what you want to write about...
...enough to deflect the oncoming automobile and cut down the danger to the occupants of the struck car. Of course, if the oncoming vehicle is a skidding Thunderbird or Mark III, the occupants presumably need not worry. Before the crash occurs and the G. M. guard rail has to prove itself, the Ford model's computer will have taken that car out of its spin...