Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precisely scripted convention and opened their re-election campaign, they paid McGovern the compliment of repeatedly blasting his policies as radical, naive or dangerous. This curious aggressive-defensiveness amid otherwise overwhelming confidence was the week's one surprise-and it suggested that the campaign may yet prove exciting, if not edifying...
...colosseums. A lot of people flirt with the idea of playing football here. Consequently, there are usually over a hundred (a figure that sometimes soars frighteningly close to 150) candidates groveling for positions. There cannot be, and unavoidably is not, enough time to give everyone an equal opportunity to prove himself. There are no cuts in Harvard football, and freshmen find that with their late reporting date and an opening game not more than three weeks away, people get overlooked. The only cuts are of the dropout variety, and there are indeed a lot of them. There is a helluva...
...master scheme in a resounding defeat, voting down by a 910 to 434 margin the Steiger Amendment for reapportioning delegate distribution at the 1976 Convention. They vowed not to succumb to quota representation: at auspicious moments, they passed before the cameras a sampling of youth, women and minorities to prove their "Open Door" policy, but they failed to provide for enlargement of those groups four years hence. In doing so, the Republicans seemed to say that in 1976, and for the forseeable future, their party will be one whose trademarks are black limousines, Pucci ties, and 45-foot yachts lined...
...entrance to the field. They rallied 8000 strong on the night President Nixon was renominated so that they could hear Sammy Davis Jr., a Democrat, and then the President tell America, as they applauded wildly, that "you have made us realize that this is a year when we can prove the experts' predictions wrong because we can set as our goal winning a majority of the new voters for our ticket in November...
...course, most recognize that the Kennedy Center--a complex including a library, archives, the Kennedy School of Government, and possible "related structures"--may prove to be the greatest blessing to the economic vitality of the Square in this century. But it doesn't assuage the fear that the ingredients of success may be ruined in the mixing, turning the Square into an ugly fusion of traffic jams, parking lots and tickey-tac, thereby destroying the small stores and whatever remains of the Square's college-town atmosphere...