Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...larger question is whether Britain's enthusiasm can prove catching on a Continent increasingly apathetic toward the EEC; the answer is, probably not. Most Europeans today seem numbed by the subject of unity. The Common Market has seemingly little relevance to their worries over inflation, which is running at an average of 7% a year, or pollution, urban problems, education, distribution of income...
...environmentalists: that any human interference with nature is in itself undesirable. In other words, Dubos flatly disagreed with Barry Commoner's so-called fourth law of ecology: "Nature knows best." On the contrary, Dubos insisted, nature does not always know best. It is, in fact, often "shortsighted." To prove his point, he cited not only such major natural calamities as droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes, but also the periodic deaths of large populations of animals like lemmings, muskrats and rabbits. Said Dubos: "Only the most starry-eyed Panglossian optimist could claim that nature knows best how to achieve population control...
...analyses, sermons and exhortations, designed to show how political lives are shaped far outside of what we've come to think of as political channels, Who knows if the bourgeois radicals who surround him have considered the imperatives of their past; if they haven't, their revolt will prove short-lived, Daniel has shaped a new kind of historical inquiry-an honest kind. He uses both Freudian psychology and Marxian sociology, but they don't contradict each other; because he understands his parents strength and failures on both levels, he doesn't resort to violence to prove his commitment...
...newly rich are also well aware that such art is now a good investment. One Osaka real estate baron recently won fame in the trade by phoning an art dealer these directions: "Get me 100 million yen [$330,000] worth of art-get me whatever you think would prove moneymaking." Japanese art buyers are operating like Sony executives all over Europe and the U.S. "No hammers go down nowadays either at Christie's or Sotheby's," one of them placidly observed last week, "without at least one of us raising his pudgy hand...
...demonstrated his narrative skills, quiet humor and satire in such pointed novels as Seconds and The Tour, succeeds in the delicate job of balancing the complete ordinariness of Davis with a weighty implication: salvation (whatever it may be) lies in the pilgrimage, not in any destination. Should this prove too transcendental for some tastes, it is worth noting that according to a recent item in the Wall Street Journal, hiking boots are a growth Stock...