Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to some who have seen both men in action, Kissinger was far more expansive in talks with heads of government. As with reporters, he would tell stories, crack jokes-often at the expense of his aides-and spin out involved arguments to prove a point. Vance sits and listens. He is less lively, but also more straightforward...
...very gradually but steadily being restricted for activists seeking social change. Citing the increasing workload as a partial reason, the Burger Court has employed a variety of devices to cut back: raising procedural difficulties for plaintiffs, eliminating some fees awarded to lawyers, and demanding that civil rights advocates prove a discriminatory intent in cases of racial segregation. The Supreme Court has also insisted that more constitutional claims be heard by state rather than federal courts...
Last spring Koch decided to approach another generally ignored group of poetic prospects-the old. He believed that older people have rich and unexpressed fantasy lives. But even Koch feared that the task would prove too difficult when he saw his first class at the American Nursing Home on Manhattan's grimy Lower East Side. There were about 25 students, most of them arriving slowly in wheelchairs and looking, as Koch recalls, "old, sick, tired, uncomfortable." Many were blind or hard of hearing, and some seemed to be asleep or in pain. Recalls Koch: "For four or five weeks...
...memoir Papa Hemingway, had successfully sued Doubleday & Co. for publishing Spanish Author José Luis Castillo-Puche's opinion in yet another Hemingway memoir that Hotchner was a "toady," a "hypocrite" and an "exploiter" of Hemingway's friendship. But because Hotchner and his lawyers failed to prove "reckless disregard for the truth" on the part of Doubleday, Judge Lumbard reversed the pro-Hotchner decision. Publishers, the judge continued, cannot self-censor every opinion expressed in their books; if they did, free speech would vanish. Hotchner, in Paris to write another book, greeted the news of the court...
...head their Sunfishes into a friendly southern sunset, there will still be a few hardy souls braving the Cambridge smog for the sake of real maritime glory. For the Harvard and Radcliffe sailing teams, spring break won't be much of a break at all--just another chance to prove their mettle as they head off in pursuit of some post-season championship silverware...