Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian Communists were elected, they would prove once and for all, by the time their term of office is up, that they are as incapable of solving Italy's problems as all of the others preceding them. Amazing, the mystique of the hammer and sickle...
...still perceive America as something unprecedented in history, as an experiment, and as such something that must "work" in order to prove itself over and over again. Hence America demands that love be given not once and for all, but that it be constantly renewed and reaffirmed. That is why both American patriotism and American self-criticism can be so shrill. Attacks on America from within are usually prompted by disappointed love. "My country, right or wrong" is not a very American slogan. We Americans have a hard time accepting a situation in which our country is wrong, not because...
...gift of love. One ultimately loves America not for what it is, or what it does, but for what it promises. True, we know that every national promise sooner or later fades and that fate cannot be forever dominated or outmaneuvered. But we must deeply believe, and we must prove, that after 200 years the American promise is still only in its beginning. ∙Henry Grunwald
...come back the next day, when more bodies would be brought in. Headmasters at Soweto schools asked for permission to hold a mass funeral for the dead Soweto schoolchildren on July 3. Even that simple request seemed likely to be turned down by white authorities. Their grounds: it might prove inflammatory...
...Stars. Because of the complexity of the experiments and the time needed to interpret data at J.P.L., at least several weeks will pass before any definitive results of these life-seeking tests are known. If all of Viking 1's tests -and those done later by Viking 2 -prove negative, the question of life on Mars will remain unresolved; the landers may simply be in the wrong places, or organisms may be thriving just a few inches below the deepest excavation of the sampler. Or Martian bugs may simply have chemistry so different from that of terrestrial life that...