Word: proved
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Joggers make me sick. There are plenty of them around here. They run past me with supercilious smirks on their red faces. What are they trying to prove? I hope they all drown in their own sweat...
...refute U.S. Justice Department claims that the company has "monopolized or attempted to monopolize" the general purpose digital-computer market. This defense effort is expected to require another three or four more courtroom years. At a pretrial hearing in 1973, U.S. Judge David Edelstein doggedly forecast that he would "prove the legal system is so advanced and so so phisticated that there is no case that's unmanageable." The verdict on that...
Some landscapes were invented by painters and carry their names. The stone farmhouse on a lavender Proveçnal hill proclaims Cézanne; the shuttered hotel room with a blue glimpse of sea beyond a curlicued balcony announces Matisse. On a less exalted level, can one drive through rural Pennsylvania and not think of Andrew Wyeth? It happens in California too, through the work of Richard Diebenkorn...
...case into the open. Warren Lebeck, president of the Board of Trade, claimed that his investigators had started digging into possible misconduct by traders even before the feds moved in and that the board had already taken disciplinary action in one case. But if Skinner's charges prove to be true, the board's measures appear to have been just a drop in the bucket...
...took a painful three days of baseball for the Boston Red Sox to prove to themselves and everyone else that they couldn't just glide by the New York Yankees, win the American League East and live happily ever after...