Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only the rich can play this game: men like George Steinbrenner, Gene Autry, or Ray Kroc. If they offer Reggie Jackson $400,000 a year for five seasons, they take a costly risk which they gamble will prove fruitful. The competitive price of labor will, most certainly, prove prohibitive for someone like Minnesota Twins owner Calvin Griffith, who has no outside business to provide cash for premium players' salaries. The few teams without significant capital backing may, unfortunately, find it difficult to remain competitive...
...forum and the interrogator's grilling? Would he finally do now what he might have done some four years ago: admit with genuine humility that he had conspired with his aides in a vain effort to keep the scandal from destroying his presidency? Or would the politically inexperienced Frost prove a patsy and let Nixon filibuster with those same skillful diversions that always seemed to be answers but never were...
...staff and reading far into the nights in his suite atop the Beverly Hilton Hotel. He was still in a mood for cramming, fortunately, as his rented blue Mercedes rolled toward the final Watergate taping. En route, he read the statute on obstruction of justice that was to prove so helpful...
These days, relations are fine between Chevy and his old SN gang. The show's audience has actually grown since Chase's leavetaking. What's more, Chevy's controversial fame may prove to be a burden. "You're always on," he sighs, explaining why he now avoids Hollywood parties. "You keep saying, 'Thank you very much,' when maybe you just want to sit down and look at your sunglasses." Paul Wolmuth
...bleak. As Iggy sings in "Baby," "We're walking down the/Street of chance/Where the chance is always/Slim or none/And the intentions unjust." Iggy seeks escape in the arms of "Tiny Girls," but he cannot find innocence. He is tempted by death and unredeemed by love, entangled by illusions which prove to be not just one mirror of his desires, but a veritable Versailles of them, gleaming and arching to infinity. The peace of death lies only at the end of the passage...