Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, Nixon's action could prove to be terminal-although not in the way the White House had intended. By firing Archibald Cox, Nixon had removed one of his best hopes of eventual vindication: a final judgment by an independent investigator that the President was in no way criminally implicated in the Watergate deceits and transgressions. Now a decapitated Justice Department, stripped of any independence and trying to continue the investigations, could come to a similar judgment-but with little credibility...
Shockley has attempted to prove that blacks are genetically inferior to whites. He says his findings show that there is a high probability that the statistically lower average I.Q. score is due to innate differences in intelligence...
...freshman year I struggled to prove that the two were compatible. But maybe they aren't. Clipped consonants and brassy vowels being the mark of the intelligentsia, my polysyllabic pronunciation of single vowels had to change. In order to be accepted as an intellectual equal, Southern women must learn to enunciate as quickly and sharply as their Northern counterparts. Southernisms such as "Are ya'll goin' to the show?" must become "Are you guys going to the movies?" In social situations, Southern women with thick or even moderate accents are victims of good-natured bantering, but the assumptions underlying...
COLUMBIA-RUTGERS--Columbia played up to par against Yale. It lost. Rutgers is a very nasty outfit this fall. With a little luck, it could be embarrassing before it's over. Rutgers will prove the Lion win over Princeton was a fluke. Rutgers 31, Columbia...
...constraints imposed by race operate similarly on both North and South alike, Aaron believes. The result is a massive literature that skirts the real issues of the War--sometimes coming tantalizingly close, but missing the mark. To prove his point Aaron catalogues the responses of several generations of American writers, starting with Emerson and going all the way to Faulkner...