Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatly fear that the slogan for De Laurentiis' film, "There is still only one King Kong," will prove only too true. I could be wrong; this new Kong just might flap his arms and fly off to the moon...
Shrinking Base. Carter's relatively narrow victory may also limit the benefits he can confer on blacks. They were only one element of a coalition that could come unstuck, shrinking Carter's base-and his re-election chances. The softest support of all may prove to be the white Southern voters who saw him as moderately conservative. Southern whites, after all, gave about three-quarters of their votes to Richard Nixon in 1972. If Carter seems to be overly attentive to blacks, they may quickly desert him. Carter's own pollster, Pat Caddell, feels that the Democratic...
What is the rationale for such sadistic nonsense? Says Psychologist Gary Margolis, director of counseling at Vermont's Middlebury College: "It's a tragic vestige of ancient tribal customs in which painful initiation rites were extremely important. To prove one's masculinity you had to experience pain. The more pain, the closer the male bond became." Adds Willard Broom, Illinois' associate dean of campus services and programs: "It's all a physical dependence process. I guess it's sort of the way the Army does basic training...
...Spelling, in whose voice can be heard television's truest, bottom-line tones. Refusing to argue with the show's detractors, he utters what television people all believe is the unassailable defense of the indefensible: "The people out there love it, and we have the numbers to prove...
...factor which might prove uncooperative is the schedule, which Petrovek terms "Harvard toughest ever." In addition to Vermont, which should be ready to make the headlines again after a tremendous schoke last year, and traditional biggies B.U., B.U., Cornell, you get the picture, there are contests with UNH, St. Lawrence, Notre Dame, Minnesota and Wisconsin; schools which only seem to surface, as far as Harvard is concerned, when the referee drops the puck...