Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lamentable that Judge James B. McGuire decided last week to send the abortion case against Dr. Kenneth Edelin to trial in Boston in January. If the nature of the hearings on the defense's dismissal motions is any indication, the trial will be circus-like and justice may prove prejudiced...
...discuss mutual problems. He also proposed that early next year a small group of oil producers and consumers should get together to consider the multiple problems of oil. Europe, he said, should have only one voice at that meeting. European skeptics wondered how serious and determined Giscard really would prove to be in carrying out such a non-Gaullist policy. But at least Giscard had made a beginning at providing desperately needed leadership in Europe. France will always march to its own drummer, but at least it seems to have rejoined the international band...
...most difficult and fundamental problem. I write at the moment still feeling the relief engendered by Mr. Nixon's resignation and am thus inclined to believe that the court's action was justified. [It was done] however, at the cost of a weak opinion which may prove unfortunate as precedent...
...Mary the actress confesses, "I don't have to prove every week that I'm a star. I don't have to be stroked all the time. I enjoy being part of an ensemble...
...granted by benefactors of the same names), while Yale has $1,000 earmarked for persons named Leavenworth or DeForest. The Mae Helene Bacon-Boggs fund grants $300 a year to a female graduate of Shasta College who is admitted to the University of California at Berkeley, if she can prove that she does not drink or smoke. Carleton College provides about $600 to farmers' daughters. The University of Arizona offers $500 to any student with a 2.5 grade-point average-who also has roped calves in a rodeo. And the Union Pacific Railroad offers 300 scholarships of $400 each...