Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHAOS. During the antiwar and black radical protests of the late 1960s and early '70s, both Presidents Johnson and Nixon were obsessed with the idea that the dissidents were financed or otherwise influenced by foreign subversive groups, and put great pressure on the CIA to find evidence to prove it. According to the commission, the agency's repeated reports that it could find no significant foreign connections with domestic disorders led only to more insistent White House demands that CIA officials look harder and "remedy any lack of resources for gathering information...
...women's idol" gives warning that the book is a family correspondence that has embarrassingly escaped into general circulation. The Briton's jaunty charm and his finely constricted delivery are far better commemorated in Lost Horizon, A Double Life, and other ancients that so persistently prove the durability of celluloid over pulp...
...money may prove to be well spent. A 19th century biographer of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French diplomat who completed the canal in 1869, said that the waterway "traced for civilization a pacific and productive route across the sands of the desert." It also saved mercantile countries huge sums in shipping charges. Closing the canal has cost an estimated $10 billion in the extra expense of sending goods around Africa's southern tip. By the end of this week, when the first convoy starts north from Suez city, ships traveling from the Persian Gulf will be able...
...world's tanker fleet could traverse the canal; today only 27% of the tanker fleet can use it. Thus, though Cairo last week almost doubled the tolls from what they were in 1967, Egyptian hopes of collecting $450 million a year from the canal may prove optimistic...
...March and 4.2% in April; the April increase was the largest on record. Looking back over their calculations, the statisticians found that in the past the new index usually has turned up two months before the start of a general rebound. If that relationship holds true again, May will prove to be the bottom month of the recession and June the first month of recovery...