Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal to lock entryway doors was rejected, Steven Dart '75, House Committee Chairman, said because students felt that it would have a "debasing effect on House life," and because it would prove ineffective...
...little too much like sending the fox to tend the chicken coop. Not that I have the slightest doubt that Harvard foxes are honorable men, who would selflessly and unflaggingly dedicate themselves to our best interests--but I would rather not give them the opportunity right now to prove my faith unwarranted. I sleep better when my watchguard's solicitude is motivated by mutual self-interest, rather than benevolence...
Years of the bad life have given the kinky Tockbridge a sexual grip over the vice president and half of Washington. She has a shoebox of films to prove it, too-- her way of combining business and pleasure. Along the way, she has also picked up liabilities, however, and as she closes in on the vice presidency, these return to haunt her. Her most dangerous enemy turns out to be the most unusual of all--an incorruptible, determined Justice Department lawyer who has uncovered an Agnewesque construction company plot...
...viewed myself as the policeman for our team," Bozer said. "Some of those Exeter boys thought they had something to prove against Harvard, and I wasn't going to let them intimidate us," he added...
...between evaders and deserters, the latter may find it more difficult to get off in court. But the Army appears eager to process and be rid of deserters; moreover, if the freshly discharged deserter skips out of alternative service, the Army cannot do anything unless it is able to prove that he intended to do so when he applied for amnesty. As for evaders, even a few Justice Department lawyers have been heard to admit that many would be better off going to court rather than taking the amnesty route. David Addlestone, who directs the A.C.L.U. military rights project, says...