Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard-core pornography. Last Tango has, after all, attracted as much serious acclaim as it has protest. What the new definition does is to shift an important tactical burden from the prosecution to the defense. Where in the past the state was often forced to produce expert testimony to prove a work valueless, now the defendant will most likely have to produce his own experts to testify to its value. Moreover, Burger specifically ruled that even without any expert testimony, judges and juries may conclude that a work is pornographic...
...Johnny was still a comer who seemed never quite to arrive. He needed a tough major tournament to test his deadly accurate game-and prove his father's faith. Johnny, 26, got his chance in 1973 at the U.S. Open in Oakmont, Pa. In a game that demands machine-like consistency, Johnny's performance was as offbeat as it was unbeatable. After carding respectable scores of 71 and 69, he skied to a horrendous 76 in the third round. Upset but not shattered, Johnny decided to "shoot the works, go for the flag, think birdie...
...feed rose at an unbelievable annual rate of more than 62%. But food was not the only villain: prices of industrial commodities shot up at an annual rate of 15.4%. In the past, Administration officials have contended that such huge leaps in a single month were likely to prove one-shot affairs, but that argument is no longer even faintly comforting. Since January, the Wholesale Price Index has risen 22.8%. The entire bulge has not yet shown up in supermarkets or other retail stores, but it soon will...
...organization resolved to "make its purpose general enough to include everyone and exclude no one." And, the diversity of the women who have chosen to affiliate themselves with the organization may prove to be its ultimate strength...
...evidently know nothing about "untenured academics" in general, whom you scorn now as suffering "the natural (innate?) desire... to prove their scholarly machismo," though you champion them when they side with students against flabby old tenured academics. You admit your ignorance here when you admit that "probably... perhaps" you know what we did. You certainly know nothing about the assistant professors on the board of examiners this year, none of whom you have interviewed to detect their propensity to machismo. As chairman of the board and a professor, I can testify to two facts: one is that all our final...