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Word: proved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prove the wisdom of Philadelphia's refusal to give Rizzo a chance at another term, a federal grand jury last week heard charges that his administration was responsible for the failure of perhaps hundreds of voting machines, most of them concentrated in anti-Rizzo wards. One of the city's election commissioners, Margaret Tartagalione, a Rizzo supporter, was arrested for having ordered voting machines in other anti-Rizzo districts moved away from regular polling places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Down with Corruption | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...brightest new stars. Moreover, in the age of TV his stunning blond wife Diane and two handsome teen-age sons are also politi cal assets. A conservative on money matters, he appealed across party lines to knock Democratic Incumbent William Hathaway out of office. Cohen is expected to prove especially forceful in arguing for party positions in the Senate when he sides with them, but firmly independent when he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: New Faces in the Senate | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...realized how much the Afrikaaner Nationalist Party controls white lives in South Africa. The Dutch Reform Church has a firm grip on the Afrikaans populations, at least here in the heart of the Transvaal. And it has no qualms about legislating morality: there seems to be a need to prove that whites are morally superior, to justify their legal and economic control of the country. No drinking or soccer on Sundays; no pornography (though pictures of bikini-clad women are splashed everywhere in this incredibly macho society); and, of course, no interracial sex. Nothing that would let the whites' moral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life in South Africa: An Outsider Goes Inside | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

After the game, the psychology major can begin to concentrate on applying to business or law school. But first he'll go back to the moose head and over to the Pi Eta to prove that he has earned his antlers.CrimsonJohn DonleySTEVE POTYSMAN...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Steve Potysman | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...mountaineers sought to prove that they are as able as their male counterparts, but to do so they segregated themselves. With that self-imposed separation they set up a distinction between themselves and the men. Ironically enough, such a distinction--any distinction--is contrary to the whole concept of equality. So to prove that men and women are equally capable of climbing mountains, the women believed they had to go it alone...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Unbiased Mountains | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

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