Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems. Bad marriages and love affairs naturally come apart, good ones grow better as the flames leap higher. Obvious cheaters and other meanies (the fire started because Builder Holden skimped on Architect Newman's safety specifications) get their comeuppance, while individuals of quiet integrity win a chance to prove their virtue...
...earlier statement. A recognized forensic specialist, Harper prepared an affidavit for Sirhan's attorneys in 1970 noting discrepancies between markings on the bullet taken from Kennedy's neck and those on a bullet that struck a bystander. Last week, however, Harper admitted that the markings do not prove that the bullets came from separate weapons. Differences in the markings, Harper said, are too insignificant to be conclusive...
Gutted Mosque. "In an anteroom of the old government house, Mohammed Mahmoud and his wife Ayesha, a couple in their 60s, sit quietly while a clerk checks their documents to be sure they are eligible to come back home. The yellow, tattered papers prove that until five years before, they had lived on a little farm just outside Suez. The clerk makes out a form giving Mahmoud permission to return to his farm, and he 'signs' it with a seal engraved on a ring...
...whether the play would have been producible in the old style (a 1968 TV revival with Nicol Williamson and George Segal was two hours of dead air). Matters have reversed themselves since Steinbeck's day, when words were the masters of the stage. Today, as Conway and Jones prove, it is the singer, not the song...
...decide what to do with his property. Similarly, citizens who want more energy must accept oil spills, strip mining and other environmental problems that even expensive technology cannot completely control. Ford writes that the environmental movement has "matured" enough to go along with these compromises. Whether that will prove to be the case depends in large part on the President's ability to steer the middle course that he now seems to have chosen...