Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...push through a major civil rights act and wage a war on poverty as did Johnson. Few unexpected gestures seemed to offer themselves. The first opening to China gave Nixon an aura of authority in foreign affairs, and the Cuban missile crisis offered John Kennedy the chance to prove his courage...
...brief seeks to prove that Nudel did not commit a crime under Soviet law, "but we expect the Soviet will be more affected by political considerations than the legal merits of our argument," Artz said. Rep. Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass.) and Rep. Patricia S. Schroeder (D.-Col.) signed the petition at Artz's request because the Soviets will pay more attention to congressmen," she said...
Courtenay Slater, the Commerce Department's chief economist, said, however, that figures do not prove that there would be a recession. "I certainly would not leap to the conclusion they are forecasting an actual recession," he said...
...descend into Widener in search of history is to forget that we will all be history soon enough, and be judged. This institution swallows up little men and women and tells them they will live forever, or at least that their ideas will, and issues them parchments to prove it. I came here believing that; many people still...
There are enough sons-of-bitches here to convince me of the first part; the latter is a matter of faith. The way to prove that faith, though, is to force these men and women to recognize the burdens of their own mortality. Not, however, by violence or building takeovers--those will only bring the sons-of-bitches to the fore. Instead we must face them quietly but resolutely, showing them the frequent cruelty of what they do, never letting them forget that there are other, more severe judges of their actions. We must haunt them with their own humanity...