Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stunning victory over the grape growers, who were forced to recognize his United Farm Workers Union. From there, Chavez looked for new fields of crops to conquer. He chose lettuce. At once, the panicky growers signed up with the Teamsters Union, hoping that it would prove more malleable than the militant U.F.W. Chavez, who felt that he had been betrayed by a brother union, was able to organize only a few growers. Many court battles and union confrontations later, the dust has still not settled. The Teamsters have agreed to turn the lettuce pickers over to the U.F.W...
...sentencing raised questions about just punishment, the "conspiracy" theory at least seemed laid to rest. The Justice Department, evidently convinced that it cannot prove its case, announced that it has dropped all of the far more serious conspiracy charges against the Harrisburg...
...from his countrymen helped keep him alive and sane during his long ordeal in the jungle; both he and Psychiatrist Haruo Kawai, who has examined him since his return, agree on that. In his youth, Yokoi was apparently made to feel inferior. Out of iji (spite), he decided to prove himself superior to everyone else in at least one thing: the capacity to suffer. "I had an extra-tough childhood," Yokoi explains. "So many people were harsh, cruel or downright brutal to me. By sticking to the jungle, I actually sought to vent my spite on all these people...
Upon returning. Farber said that he was "extremely pleased" with the trip. He said it enabled him to obtain "factual information and sights that will prove extremely helpful in conveying to those in the Harvard community who are interested what the facts are about Gulf and Angola...
...Hogan has any evidence of the charge he is making. I will meet him at any time he wants in the district attorney or attorney general's office. And if he can prove these charges I'll give everything I have to his favorite charity," McCann said...