Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murray's campaign cry for a higher sales tax. But in the day of rising resentment against labor racketeering, the Republicans have a brass-knuckled charge that the 1956 Loveless campaign was financed by $17,500 of Teamsters' Union funds and have a Hoffa-signed check to prove it. Under Iowa law, out-of-state campaign funds are illegal-but the statute...
Also on the positive side, Dr. Jordan holds that ulcer victims need not punish themselves with dreary diets if they use discrimination and good sense. To prove it, she co-authored (on the advice of The New Yorker's late dyspeptic Editor Harold Ross) Good Food for Bad Stomachs. Published in 1951, it is still selling, is leaded for a new edition...
...schooled a whole generation of vocalists to phrase and improvise like jazzmen; Ella, too, who popularized scatted lyrics and the word rebop. But Ella has always moved with equal ease through the palm-frond world of popular dance music, and Jazz Impresario Norman Granz set out to prove it by issuing a series of albums on his own Verve label featuring Ella in great pop hits. Latest addition to the series: Ella singing Irving Berlin...
...when he was scheduled to goof. And at least three times before he eventually lost as requested, he wrote himself registered letters spelling out his questions and answers in advance of his appearance on the show. Turned over to the district attorney last week, those letters, says Snodgrass, will prove to a grand jury that he and someone on Twenty One were involved in a fix. "Surprised" by Artist Snodgrass' testimony. NBC officials faced up to the fact that the quiz scandal has not died and promised "to launch a prompt and thorough investigation of the charges...
...what may prove to be the Crimson's toughest game of the year, the varsity soccer team will meet a powerful Cornell squad this afternoon at Ithaca. The Big Red, pre-season favorites to lead the Ivy League this year, rate as slight favorites in today's game...