Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London disarmament talks may prove in the end to be a dumb show, because agreement was never possible, and by one side never intended. But if the Russians are serious or even curious about disarmament, the Western allies gave them their chance last week to talk specifics...
Some conservatives of the period sought to prove that the liberal idea of society was unrealistic, he asserted. Their leaders, Hartz said, men such as Edmund Burke and Benjamin Disraeli, pointed to the permanent character of social coercion and urged a return to the older conservative concepts. But, he continued, the ideals which the liberals had initiated were irradically set in public opinion...
...hours and ten minutes later, the jury returned to the court. The verdict: Kasper and six others, guilty. And, as if to prove that it weighed evidence and not passions, the jury acquitted the remaining four defendants. "We tried our best to come up with a just verdict," said the foreman of the jury later. "We discussed the case thoroughly before taking a ballot. We weighed the evidence carefully against the points of law as outlined by the judge. We tried to avoid being influenced by any side issues...
...younger generation, about whom a former Luftwaffe ace complains: "When we were young, we were speed-crazy. Now the boys tell me, 'Jets are too fast. We don't want one foot in the grave.' " Old Luftwaffe pilots, now in their late 30s or early 40s, prove slower to train than their opposite U.S. numbers, report U.S. instructors at Fürstenfeldbruck. Banned from the air for ten years, baffled by the jet age complexities, bridling at homework and "NATO English," and afflicted by the general Ohne mich ("Count me out") psychology which infects German soldiery...
...University, Egypt's revolution was merely preposterous. Its romantic absurdity is represented by one Lieut. Mahmoud Yehia, an idealistic young hero of the Palestine war who wants first of all to see his wicked king dethroned and punished, and second to marry an Englishwoman. Nothing will so much prove the glory of the new Egypt and heal the wounds of his former "wog" status as marriage to Elaine Brent, a visiting newshen of the London Sun. Yehia earnestly consults a young Englishman as to the mysterious ceremonials by which English ladies are courted...