Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this rummaging through the past turned up some engaging anecdotes. Naturalist Thomas Jefferson, for example, had reached the end of his wits in a debate with that skeptical Frenchman Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who did not believe that such a thing as a moose existed. To prove the point, Jefferson, a pragmatic scientist, had a full-grown American moose shipped from New Hampshire to Buffon with his compliments-unique evidence, from the new nation, of a new world...
...mother's womb--only this would have legally constituted birth, according to the trial judge, James P. Maguire--but he could shout emotionally that "this is the case of a child that was born." Even given his contention that a child had been born, Flanagan could not prove that the alleged human life Edelin ended was "viable." All he could do was to argue against making patients and their doctors "the absolute judge of what the law is in this country." What Flanagan himself would like to do with the abortion law was clear...
...several of his visitors have left with the impression that Collier is snowing them under with statistics, formulas, pain indices, ideal capacities, crowding quotients and everything else he uses to prove that crowding is equally distributed among all the Houses...
These statistics may prove that Mather really is the most crowded House. However, all they will really show is that anyone can prove anything he wants with statistics. And that is something that any visitor to Bruce Collier's basement lair soon discovers...
...some way related to the patient's driving search for something that will earn him respect." Despite the apparent stability in the anorexic's home--very few come from broken homes--Bruch finds in the parents a deep disillusionment with each other. They are competing secretly to prove which is the better parent. The mother is likely to be an achievement-oriented woman, frustrated in her aspirations, very conscientious in her conception of motherhood, subservient to her husband without truly respecting him. The father, despite considerable social and financial success, feels second rate and is preoccupied with physical appearances...