Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salvation." She desires the love of the flutter-brained coquette who being devotedly hetero-sexual, will not yield. This woman's vanity demands the Lesbian as a mirror because there are no mirrors in hell. The coquette, in turn, asks love of the journalist, who only wants to prove to himself that he is not a coward, yet he cannot make love to her with the Lesbian watching and taunting...
Certainly the South has no monopoly on racial prejudice, and a Harlem makes almost as poor an impression as does a Little Rock. The significant step the nation's largest city has taken in breaking down racial barriers should prove a healthy example here and abroad...
...weeks' time. In one respect, something has been lost: the characters are no longer so fully and revealingly lived with, hence so expressive or large. In another respect, something has been blurred: there is a lessened thematic sense, and even in a tighter framework, where everything should prove integral, some things are merely episodic or picturesque...
...budget of the Manhattan Project type. Such a group would control the development of all missiles and would allocate these weapons to the armed services on the basis of a strict formula. This commission would end duplications and rivalries. With the necessary power and financing, it would prove far more efficient than the present system. In long range terms, the board would be better able to control basic research and would be less narrow in its military thinking than the overly-committed branches of the armed services. Under the present system, the United States could not win the missiles race...
This first game against B.U. should prove a very interesting test for the Crimson as the Terriers have always furnished rugged competition. Last February, they beat the varsity in the Beanpot tournament, 5 to 3, in a game that almost proved fatal to the varsity's NCAA chances. Down 3 to 0 near the end of the second period and apparently hopelessly out of the game, B.U. exploded for five goals to win the contest going away...