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Word: proved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of what they see they may not recognize. While the venerable red brick of the Yard remains familiar, some say new additions to the Harvard skyline prove more puzzling...

Author: By Robert J. Weiner, | Title: Alumni Return to Cambridge | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...despite the reassurances, the political summit may prove to be anything but "no problem." What really deserved welcome was less the talks inside the Great Hall of the People than the protests outside, in Tiananmen Square. Crackdown or not, the protests were the "healthy development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watching From Offshore | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...invigorating collaboration, these three godfathers of the '80s action epic have adopted a father of their own. Sean Connery, who as James Bond helped sire the thrill-machine genre, brings his masterly charm to the role of Indiana's estranged dad Henry Jones. Lucas and Spielberg, Ford and Connery prove that a sequel can be as fresh as the face of a teenage Indy confronting his first hairbreadth challenge. Indy 3 is the same, different and better. It infuses vitality into the action-adventure, a movie staple whose ravenous popularity and endless, predictable permutations have nearly exhausted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: What's Old Is Gold: A Triumph for Indy | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

Williams said yesterday that he would prefer to hold a hearing at the end of June, rather than during the fall. Because the bus driver, Geoffrey J. McQuilken '91, will be in Cambridge over the summer, Williams said he believed there would be enough evidence to prove his side of the case...

Author: By Mathew M. Hoffman, | Title: Police Bias Hearing Delayed | 5/24/1989 | See Source »

What kind of mother would expect her 15-year-old daughter to jump off a tower while strapped with wings to prove that mankind can fly? What kind of daughter, after being cowed by such a mother, would so quake at the parent- child bond that she would abandon her toddler to relatives and head off to Europe to teach? What kind of child, growing up as the object of battle between such willful women, would prove at once fiercer and more forgiving than either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Willful Women, Home Truths | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

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