Word: proved
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...page essay entitled "Work and Self-Respect," he attempts to define the term "grown-up" by the working man's or woman's standards. He arrives at the legitimate conclusion that it means "responsible, hard-working, dedicated and, not least, self-sacrificing without demonstration of self-pity." To prove his thesis Cole relies on a few random interviews conducted "out there," as he describes the field. But, at the risk of throwing doubt on his opening assertion that he is in the tradition of George Orwell, James Agee and Simone Weil, Coles goes no further in briefing us on work...
...picking the weight and height of the speakers-far closer than they would have achieved with random guesses. "Apparently," says Lass, "there are adequate perceptual clues in the voice, which reflect, to some extent, the physical features of height and weight." He is confident that future research will prove his thesis. Hello, officer, I'd like to report an anonymous obscene phone call from...
...said he had also expected that he would have to try out to prove his abilities, since a knee injury this year cutailed his playing time...
...adds: "We obviously are advocates for the implementation of the Constitution. When we started this study we had a feeling there was more positive evidence for desegregation than appeared on the surface." Dissenter Lindstrom speaks for the critics, however, when he argues that it might have been possible to "prove the same damn thing" if the commission had used an unbiased approach. He adds: "I don't think the report proves desegregation does not work. It just doesn't prove anything...
...asked to believe that people working inside the television oligopoly scheme to advance their corporate positions with such melodramatic abandon that their behavior constitutes not just an affront to traditional moral standards but clear and present danger to democratic society. Yet the plot that Paddy Chayefsky has concocted to prove this point is so crazily preposterous that even in post-Watergate America-where we know that bats can get loose in the corridors of power-it is just impossible to accept...