Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works his way down the sofa toward the interviewer, telling how five top Michigan Republicans are urging him to get into the presidential race. His thin, somewhat sulky mouth and upturned nose give him a youthful look, even at 58. He had thought, Connally goes on, that Reagan would prove to be a more skillful campaigner than he has, better able to deflect the grilling of the press. Reagan's awkwardness has helped Ford recover and, according to Connally's appraisal, further reduced the chance of a political opening for anyone else...
...squad does not have long to prove their potential--only six games remain on the schedule. Next week marks the end of the Ivy League slate as the team meets both Dartmouth and Yale. The Radcliffe five ends its season with contests against Stonehill, Regis, Williams and Emmanuel...
Obstacle number on is MIT on Tuesday night, and victory over the Engineers should prove about as tough as the requirements in "Boats." On the following Saturday, however, the Crimson racquetmen host Penn and then travel to Yale, contests which will decide the championship...
...Boston Ballet's "Choreographers' Series" (National Theatre, January 29-February 8) premiered eleven works by eight choreographers, none of them very well-known, or very good. Some prove themselves good craftsmen while a few choose subject matter unusual for ballet and dabble with modern dance technique (a holdover from last year's series titled "Experiment in Dance"). With one exception, none achieve much beyond half-baked ideas or artificial cliches...
...expert in sex therapy called the book "technically instructive"; another doctor, however, warned that the author's "circus-trick" love-making techniques could prove fatal to the weak of heart. The object of their testimony: a raunchy paperback autobiography by Porn Queen Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat. After deliberating for nearly five hours at London's Old Bailey courthouse, a jury of nine men and three women found the British publisher of the book, titled Inside Linda Lovelace, innocent of obscenity charges. Linda declared herself "ecstatic," but others were less pleased. Groused Labor M.P. Neil Kinnock, when...