Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond that, the Israeli-Lebanese agreement has opened the way to an important readjustment in the Middle East lineup, one that could prove to be a genuine turning point in Israel's relations with its Arab neighbors. This marks the first time since the Jordanian crisis of 1970 that Israel is in active league with Arabs in a neighboring state. The arrangement also has, for the moment at least, put the Israelis on the same side as the Syrians, who months ago shifted from support of the Moslems in Lebanon to active intervention on the side of the Christians...
...cases before actual judges from the D.C. bench. Says Garland Poynter, head of education at the District of Columbia Jail: "Once you learn the system, you learn to respect it. It decreases frustration." Thanks to street law's practical and straightforward approach, even inmates with scant education often prove to be apt and alert pupils...
...Each year local television stations clone platoons of handsomely competent news readers, some of whom are expensively promoted to the big time but do not make it. They do all right as long as they just read, but when forced to describe an event at length themselves, they prove uninteresting because their minds are uninteresting; in interviews, they lack the knowledge or the dexterity to cross-examine...
...opera or fairy tale yet taken up the game. Still, whenever a starry-eyed young thing with a shaky backhand contemplates courtship and marriage through mixed doubles, some dreadful figure should come out of the woodwork, wave a gnarled ringer and howl: "Beware, my pretty! Tennis may prove no bond but a curse." The best warning that exists is a Buchwald column about a tennis-blighted romance between Patty and Bob. Its message can be taken in two quotes from Bob. Premarital: "You look so cute when you miss." Postmarital: "Don't hold your racquet down, stupid...
...women were in action, and the company is thinking of doubling that number next year. More mixed-doubles play does not necessarily mean less conflict. Braden notes that in tennis, as women free themselves from inhibitions about sweating and yelling and hustling to win, they may prove more of a court scourge than men. Says he: "Women are hurt more deeply and stay hurt longer by losses. I've had women come to me saying they wanted to be good enough to beat someone two years from now. The arguments in the new all-women's leagues are something like...