Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McMurphy soon learns that, as one of the doctors puts it, "the asylum is 'society in miniature.'" From his first boisterous appearance, crashing in as a recent "committal" from the state prison farm, to when he lies stretched out under a sheet, a dead "Vegetable," McMurphy is determined to prove that he can function in this society as well as in any other. His roles are many: "bull-goose loony," "Jesus Q. Christ," father figure, and, for Kesey's autobiographical purposes, perhaps, Chief among his Merry Pranksters. He continues to function, all right, but can be survive in this...
...played football in our neighborhood to prove you were a man, and you played rough. No fancy suburban passing, no wild flea-flicker plays, just a hard-nosed ass-kicking running game between the tackles. Football was always pushed as a way out of our neighborhood. If you hit hard and came to practice every day, you could go to college and not have to work in the steel mills...
Greenwood's technique is obviously cruder than fingerprinting, and could provide only an indication of the size and shape of a criminal's shoes. Still, the Home Office, which encouraged Greenwood in his research, has hopes that the technique will prove useful to detectives. Electrostatic shoeprints, for instance, could give some hint of the size and sex of a culprit, reveal how many people were involved in a caper and even allow police to trace their movements...
...Child beating, one of the ugliest crimes, is difficult to prove, difficult to prosecute. In many states doctors are legally required to report suspected abuses, but they rarely do. A recent case in California may change this situation...
However, the effect of his irony can be to distance his audience from his meaning. As a moralist, Buneul's values prove elusive. Though the audience may know that Bunuel has said, "I am not interested in society. I like people but not human society," the ambiguity as to how one is supposed to feel about the characters seems almost intentional. One can almost judge Bunuel to be unconcerned that his audience understand what he is saying...