Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found its way to Jimmy Hoffa. Under questioning, Hoffa conceded that he got $10,000 in "loans" from the bagmen who collected from the laundrymen. but beyond that, his memory failed him. He could not recall any details about repaying the loans, nor could he produce any records to prove that he did repay them...
...join 19 other Dixie Senators in this 1956 blast against civil rights made him a "traitor to the South," charged Cooper, who swore that his first official act would be to sign it.* Cheered by Orval Faubus' landslide just across the Mississippi, Cooper's rednecks promised to prove that only stout segregationists can now win primaries below the Mason-Dixon. But at vote-counting time in the as-good-as-elected Democratic primary late last week, Albert Gore was renominated with 60% of the total, and swamped Cooper-watermelons, manifestoes and all-under a bigger vote than...
...with the feudal Imam of Yemen, a ruler whose primitivism makes the sheiks of Saudi Arabia appear enlightened democrats by comparison.* By joining the U.A.S., other Arab rulers might hope to keep some internal autonomy and some hold on their fabulous oil revenues. Such a membership, seemingly voluntary, might prove immune to U.N. charges of violating the independence of those brotherly sovereign states...
...symbolic of the whole region's inheritance of paradox and anachronism. Next month Premier de Gaulle's new constitution will go before the people, who by choosing white or green cards will decide whether or not to cast their lot permanently with the French. Whether this will prove a false departure, with the Africans refusing to go, depends partly on how eloquent De Gaulle proves in person on a tour of West Africa in the next fortnight. France's colonial record, splotchy elsewhere, is quite good in West Africa. And the French have shown themselves surprisingly adaptable...
Tuesday night an attenuated compendium of Schneider deadbeats returned to prove that in the interim they had not lost their spirit nor their courage. From its opening number, "Billboard March," to its concluding piece, "Pandemonium by All," the band was superb...