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Word: proved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stan R. Frankel '80 said yesterday he received a summons even though he is registered to vote in Illinois. He said he must prove his Illinois residency to qualify for exemption or face a $1000 fine...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Jury Duty | 12/9/1978 | See Source »

...mastered it. He could invest himself with religious charisma by using the traditions of American fundamentalist theology: faith healing, apocalyptic exhortations, visions of the promised land. But he could also provide his followers with a forceful rationalization: his church was an instrument of social revolution. The follower was to prove his convictions the old way--tithe and then some...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: The Wisdom That Is Woe... ...the Woe That Is Madness | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

...there was another, more demanding way to prove one's conviction: the willingness to die. Who could be a true believer who would not die for his beliefs? Indeed, Jones seems to have sensed a great secret of the national consciousness: Americans tend to be ashamed of their faith, to feel it is weak, for they see that their vision of a "city on a hill," a utopia, a Great Society, has failed. Americans are by history failed absolutists: but if they are given a second chance at some absolute spiritual system, they grasp it with fervor...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: The Wisdom That Is Woe... ...the Woe That Is Madness | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

Cassidy takes issue with the critics of American English who fear that the language is becoming, well, as soggy as a hoagie in a goose drownder. "I defy anybody to prove that language is deteriorating," insists he. "It's still changing all the time, and it's as varied and alive as it's always been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hero Wordship | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Another pleasant surprise came when Joe Salvo, Joe Day and Jean-Marc Chapus swept the 60-yd. dash to prove that the sprint is no longer a Crimson weakness...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Tracksters Thrash Brown, 80-56, in Show of Depth | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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