Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some slept around to prove that they could be women and liberated at the same time; and they choked back any cheap taste that filtered through their insides. Women tripped from bed to bed as if to proclaim to the world, "My sex is my freedom." But this sort of man-hopping denied any roots at all, and rootlessness loosens the grip on the self. These feverish sexual experiments were born out of a headlong rush into a new found feminism; sex was leaping out of the self to escape...
...South. Ruling on the system in Denver, the court upheld a lower-court finding that the school board had fostered segregation in a significant portion of the city. Sending the case back to the lower courts for further action, the Justices said that unless the school board can prove it did not practice segregation in mixed neighborhoods, it may be required to integrate the entire system, presumably by busing if necessary...
Love has earned a reputation as a moderate, a negotiator rather than a strongman-which leaves him open to charges of indecisiveness. Still, negotiating skills will surely prove useful in balancing the different requirements of energy industries, foreign suppliers and the public. In an interview with TIME Correspondent John Wilhelm last week, Love was quick to admit that 'Tm no energy expert." He will depend on Charles DiBona, the White House's energy specialist, who will be his chief assistant. Some of Love's other comments...
Worse yet, the virgin may be suspected of frigidity or lesbianism, and in deed she may suspect herself of one or the other, just as inexperienced males may question their own potency or masculinity. Having intercourse only intensifies these worries if the first experiences prove disappointing. In fact they often do. Psychiatrist Moskowitz notes that adolescents are saturated with sexual talk and books, and may take as the norm the improbable exploits they see in pornographic films. Thus they develop superhuman expectations. Young girls believe that they should have intoxicating orgasms beginning with their first night in bed with...
...points must first be resolved. He has not yet decided, for example, exactly which crops should be planted. He must also confront a Texas law banning the sale of food grown in human wastes, even though the sludge contains neither pathogens nor "any element of sham or sin." To prove the point, he will reserve 16 acres for scientific tests of all trace elements in various crops...