Word: proved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like all jurors, Janney had been instructed not to discuss the trial with anyone. But by shrewd prodding, Carol had apparently gotten Janney to do some talking. With carefully culled excerpts from her conversations with him, as verified only by Carol, the defense tried to prove that Janney was emphatically prejudiced ("Those goddam Communists-If anyone ever mentions Marxism-Leninism to me, I'll knock his block off"). They contended he was determined to find the defendants guilty ("Whatever the verdict is, it will be appealed and appealed...
Adenauer belongs in the ranks of Europe's Christian Democratic politicians, whose emergence to leadership in the West is one of the Continent's striking postwar phenomena. His Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), together with its political counterparts in Italy, France, Belgium and The Netherlands, may well prove to be the force to stem the assault of Communism and to bring about Europe's regeneration. He states his political credo simply: "Germany can be reconstructed on a sound basis only if she declares herself wholeheartedly for the Christian world of the West and all it stands...
That was too much for Monsignor Edward A. Freking, editor of the official archdiocesan weekly, the Catholic Telegraph-Register. Cried Monsignor Freking: "I could take Mildred Miller's whole column, change 25 words, and prove that people descended from apes." In an editorial in the Telegraph-Register last week, he threatened a Catholic boycott of the Enquirer if the American Weekly ("literary trash and blasphemous views") lived up to its advance billing...
...been groaning under the ills of insurrection in the ranks, irregular support from the public, the musical tastes of Conductor Karl Krueger and the uncompromising management of Board President Henry H. ("I like this way") Reichhold (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week it looked as if the ills might prove fatal, though not before President Reichhold, the symphony's chief supporter, had delivered himself of remarks at the deathbed...
...down here. I wish Dr. Beebe were down here with me. He might know what some of these things are..." A little later: "Let's hold up here a while. There are so many things going by that it kind of makes me dizzy." Then: "I want to prove this thing by going down a little deeper, for competitive reasons, I suppose...