Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thieu's comments may well prove to be prophetic about the immediate future of South Viet Nam. The cease-fire really marks the beginning of a period of prolonged uncertainty-and perhaps of yet a new stage in the war. Now only an overwhelming effort of good will, it would seem, will permit cooperation between the opposing armed forces and their political cadres, and such an agreement is not in evidence...
...Viet Nam commentators has been that the war, and the revelations of My Lai, the perversity of the overdog, the abuses of power, conspired to destroy not only the sense of America's omnipotence but the sense of American guilelessness as well. And yet, how true will that prove...
That fight, so-called "The Fight of the Century," was supposed to settle the issue once and for all. Joe Frazier saw it as a chance to prove in the ring that the title was his. For three years, he had held the heavyweight crown without being able to echo John L. Sullivan's famous champion's boast: "My name is John L. Sullivan and I can beat any bastard alive...
Undeterred, Hammer vows to keep visiting Moscow "until we get them [the Soviets] all signed up." Perhaps he will one day achieve the biggest breakthrough toward expanded East-West trade. But he has yet to prove that his ability to conclude firm deals matches his talent for generating publicity...
...continual flashes of humor, and when he talks of descanting on his own deformity or wonders at the blindness that finds him a marv'llous proper man, he means what he says. In even his blackest lies, we sense some sincerity, as though he has indeed determined to prove a villain reluetantly, after sounding his own nature and discovering that he cannot prove a lover...