Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authorization bill already passed by the House with only $339 million cut. Certain of the wisdom of continued aid, the committee restored $104 million of the cut. Even that cut was adopted apologetically as a necessary tactic to forestall deeper cuts when the bill hits the Senate floor. To prove good will, the committee even voted to let the President himself decide where the $235 million cut could best be shaved...
Susskind took over the dying days of the sagging Kraft Theater in a frank attempt to prove what a live weekly show could be, hit a high point with All the King's Men. His other six plays had been enterprising, if not consistently successful. All met zero response from sponsors with next season on their minds...
...affection, has been almost killed with kindness. Desperate, he decides to fit the round peg in a round hole. Though regulations forbid such cruel and unusual punishments, the sergeant secretly assigns Will as "P.L.O.-Permanent Latrine Orderly." "P.L.O.!" gasps Will, "Oh, thank you, sir." And he proceeds to prove himself such an orderly orderly that the captain compliments him on the condition of the latrine. Will allows that most of the credit belongs to the sergeant who-"He what!" the captain roars, and by the time the tumult has subsided, the sergeant is "a 45-year-old private" who does...
...vital to the West, the way to achieve it is difficult. One suggestion is for a series of international "commodity agreements" to stabilize prices and production. But so far, the U.S. has shied away because such pacts would be little more than worldwide price-fixing cartels that would prove no more workable than the U.S. farm price-support program. Another idea is for the U.S. and other buyer nations to stockpile raw materials from underdeveloped nations. But since the U.S. already has full stockpiles of most commodities, any addition to them would be a dole...
...mind France's nonfictional Oradour-Sur-Glane). To the French Left he becomes a martyr, and "Liberez Dujardin" is scrawled on every wall in Paris. Only the evidence of Stone, who is now symbolical of the dead (he is now with the United States Army Graves Registration), can prove that Dujardin is. in fact, no martyr but a traitor. This should make Stone a hero in his own right, but, as Humes tells it, he is caught between the upper millstone of a postwar U.S. right wing and the nether millstone of French Stalinism...