Word: proved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been nearly 25 years since John McPhee struck out for areas relatively unknown, to prove by deft reportage that anything can be interesting if it is presented well. He has written arrestingly about subjects as mundane as oranges and as momentous as high-energy physics and the geologic forces that shape our planet. The three pieces that constitute his 20th book, Atchafalaya, Cooling the Lava and Los Angeles Against the Mountains, deal with the power of determined people to tame water, fire and earth...
...investigators and reporters jostled for scraps of information about yet another apparent traitor, did anyone care that under the law Bloch was still presumed innocent? His case may indeed prove to be the most serious spy scandal to come out of the State Department since the Alger Hiss affair. But, wrote columnist Lars-Erik Nelson of the New York Daily News, Bloch "is also a U.S. citizen, entitled to due process before execution." Charles Schmitz, vice president of the American Foreign Service Association, said the baying after Bloch was "terrible either way -- for his rights if innocent, for the case...
...American investigators would be hard pressed to prove what was in the briefcase. "While the Soviets have the documents, we're stuck with suspicions," said one. Almost every major spy conviction depends heavily on the suspect's cooperation. The New York Times reported that Bloch told the FBI he was working for "many years" for the KGB and had received "a lot of money," but he refused to talk further about specific acts of espionage...
...Japan into a long period of uncertainty as the country wrestles with political instability for the first time in decades. At the very least, the Liberal Democrats cannot hope to regain their majority in the upper house for at least six years. Some analysts believe the defeat may even prove salutary. Says an American official: "The voters were sending a specific message: Clean up your act, not We're through with...
...think whites feel threatened. It takes close contact and a lot of communication to get across the message that you have nothing to fear from the next person. We have had to prove to whites that we are not going to have power and leave them out. The burden is on us to make the effort to include them. That approach has done more for race relations in this town than anything else. I very much do not want to be guilty of some of the things they were guilty of. I have more close white friends today than...