Word: proved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy does not consider presence at an AYD folk dance as potential evidence of subversive activity, why does it ask about participation in these functions? And even if the Navy could use such evidence to prove subversiveness, the asking has a serious deterrent effect far outweighing its value as providing information. 2.) Even if we could be sure that the lists of "subversive" organizations, made up without due process, are entirely accurate, we cannot accept the premise that members of subversive organizations are ipso facto subversive themselves. Obviously there can be more than the two reasons mentioned for remaining...
...years old, had no business hanging around a bar, and didn't know how to handle his liquor. For these missteps he paid last week with his life. Entering the 101 Café in Downey, a suburb of Los Angeles, he flashed a driver's license to prove he was 24. He ordered up a couple of beers while the jukebox was grinding out Jealous Heart, danced about, began fooling around the shuffleboard game. Then Granillo tossed a couple of heavy shuffleboard weights across the crowded room. Bartender Edgar Gray (at right behind bar) told him to clear...
Encouraged, he brought in his heavy points against an opposing slate, that of the Cambridge Civic Association. He pointed out that the CCA claimed to be a good government group. This was definitely a bad thing. He had a case in point to prove...
...soldiers and toy Indians are helping the Social Relations Department prove that the same thing looks different to the same person...
...reason at all. Most of the killings were committed at close range, for Jesse's marksmanship was "miserable." Readers who believe that Missouri's most famous killer stole to give to the poor have been Robin Hoodwinked, Author Horan says, and assembles impressive evidence to prove his point. On the credit side, Dingus gets two gold stars from his biographer: 1) "He appeared to be faithful to his wife and to be fond of his children," and 2) "His personal courage never seems to have been questioned...