Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Something Completely Different, included this skit, complete with props and the suitable atmosphere of a pet shop. Seeing this skit performed again on the bare stage of a London auditorium leaves you flat; watching a grown man repeatedly slam a stuffed parrot against a desk to prove its deceased state ceases to be funny after a while. The same can be said for the movie's closing sequence, featuring the transvestite lumberjack number. It is the sheer shock value of these skits that made them so hilarious the first time around, and the novelty of the Monty Python perversity wears...
Danehy does have some positive credits to his name, provided by both liberal and Independent members. The morning after Danehy's election, Wylie said he believes Danehy will be business-like and may even prove to be a good mayor. Graham and Vellucci have expressed similar sentiments. Alice Wolf--a member of the school committee that Danehy as mayor, will also chair--reserved any judgments, but said optimistically, that she hopes the situation will work out well. On the more negative side of things, the liberal members and supporters of the Cambridge School Committee fear some conflicts with Danehy...
Princeton's coach Dave Benjamin admitted that he was "less miserable than usual." More seriously, he added, "We wanted to prove that we could win away from home to show to ourselves and everyone else that we were really number one." Anyone in Hemenway on Saturday was convinced...
...Russians may want to establish a new base at Massawa, though Moscow already has naval and air facilities in both South Yemen and Aden. Ethiopia could prove to be a mini-Viet Nam for the Russians even though, as the second most populous nation in black Africa (pop. 29 million), it offers them a more attractive springboard than Somalia from which to jump into African affairs and establish a strong presence along the Persian Gulf tanker routes...
...they were, necessarily lacked. Tolstoy had originally thought of calling his novel Two Marriages, and a major theme of the book is the contrast between the happily allied Kitty (Caroline Langrishe) and Levin (Robert Swann) and the ill-matched Karenins. The series is able to develop that subplot and prove, so far as Tolstoy was concerned anyway, the thesis of the novel's famous opening sentence: "All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion...