Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University Hospital last December with nausea, vomiting and a burning sensation in his hands. Lilly loyally visited the bedside, but a doctor involved in the earlier cases happened to spot her. She was dissuaded from further visits, and her employer recovered. Again police could find no evidence to prove that Lilly had ever bought or administered arsenic, so they brought no charges. Says a police lieutenant who investigated Lilly: "All we had was hearsay and circumstantial evidence...
...that they contained no details that had not been reported earlier by others. Checking with several sources, Avery could find no record of Patterson's entry into China. Word of Avery's digging got back to Examiner Editor Ed Dooley, who confronted Patterson. When he could not prove that he had been to China, the paper ran a Page One box that disavowed his articles and announced his dismissal...
...Vatican seems determined to use the Roman Catholic Church of The Netherlands as a test case to prove that the progressive wing of the church can be curbed. What is more, it seems to be winning. First there was the appointment of conservative Msgr. Adrianus Simonis to the see of Rotterdam. Then came the appointment of a stubborn reactionary, Johannes Gijsen, to the see of Roermond (TIME, July 24). Now the hierarchy of The Netherlands has been forced to cancel a national pastoral council meeting set for October...
...backdrops and famous ladies like Isabella d'Este to be viewed. Painting the Last Supper on the wall of Milano's Refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, experimenting with flight and war machines, feuding with that young punk and fellow genius Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci may yet prove that not even television can keep a good Renaissance man down...
Quick Change. The flu bug is a quick-change artist. It undergoes what scientists call antigenic alterations, or periodic transformations in biochemical makeup. As a result, vaccines developed to defend against one virus generation-usually too late to do much good-generally prove altogether powerless against the next. In addition, natural immunities acquired through exposure to one year's microbes may offer no protection against later models...