Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gets the impression that many of the people who oppose smoking go through life searching for ways to prove their rights are being denied, and that they are abused...
...personal goals. I believe that if I can prove myself useful, then gradually people may wish me to become more closely involved with specific organizations or movements. _ have not set myself a general goal in life, nor am I sufficiently ambitious or overconfident to have decided what mark I would like to make on history. I would only hope that it won't be a messy mark...
...legal white supremacy--they could not win the fight against economic exploitation. It was not enough, they said, to work with liberal white students for majority rule. Black South Africans had to free themselves of any sense that they were dependent on whites, or that they had to prove they could be just like the whites...
...WONDERS just what F.I.S.T. is trying to prove. Yes, it correctly isolates the roots of Teamster-like corruption, and recreates the mood of the McClellan hearings rather effectively. Yes, it tells the story of the birth of a fictitious-but-powerful Hoffaesque labor boss. But one cannot help but wonder why such a story is necessary, except as a vehicle for the portrayal of random, gratuitous and organized violence--both management and union-instigated--with the imprimatur of Rocky legitimacy provided by Stallone, and sealed, in absurd enough fashion, with a fist...
...years ago it was MIT, 27-0. Then it was Mass Maritime, 27-3. And yesterday, it was Williams's turn to prove it no longer belongs on the schedule of the fast-improving Harvard lacrosse team...