Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon became clear that the case against the colonels on the charge of insurrection might be hard to prove. The key issue was whether or not the colonels had in fact seized power illegally in 1967. But their superior officer, Lieut. General Gregorios Spandidakis, the army chief of staff-now also on trial -had approved and even joined the coup. Moreover, Premier Caramanlis himself had tacitly accepted the junta's legitimacy. It was the junta that summoned Caramanlis back to Greece to form a new government last year, and it was a President appointed by the colonels, Phaedon Gizikis...
...writing, and any argument would be a pedantic waste of time. But whoever Hemingway was he was human, and to demystify the hallowed name of a great author must be to do more than rail furiously against fame and toss about death-wish forebodings to prove the point. This only makes it look like the playwright himself is mystified and awed, while the audience is mystified and bored...
...prove you love me Remember only yourself Recall your deeds of glory Recall that raging fire Whose fury could not fright you When it blazed around my rock...
Three years ago, 16 Harvard students were denied bids to register to vote for president by former Election Commissioner Edward J. Samp Jr. until they could prove they intended to live in Cambridge after graduation...
...capital, to carry through such developments. Says Gordon Bloom, a senior lecturer at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management and a leading food expert: "Because the industry operates on such a low profit margin, it won't spend two cents for technological innovation unless you can prove the payoff." Until it does, however, food can only continue gobbling more and more of the American family's budget...