Word: proving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine each) on the basis of their concerted refusal to talk (three of the 21 were also indicted on straight perjury charges). By that legal device, the Government hopes to put some of the top U.S. thugs out of circulation-certainly a worthy aim. Yet achieving that aim might prove impossibly difficult. Although circumstantial evidence is given substantial weight in conspiracy trials, it must nonetheless be proved that the Apalachin mobsters have refused to talk through group decision, not as individuals just trying to get out of trouble...
...some 300 years ago, when Dutch East India Co. colonists settled on the Cape of Good Hope and there planted an almond hedge to keep blacks and whites apart. The recent turmoil all over Africa has made South African whites increasingly anxious to raise a thick hedge that would prove impenetrable to the Union's blacks...
...Britain, Virginia-born Lady Astor turned So, practiced some golf shots, fired some verbal salvos to prove that her mind and tongue are keen as ever. On British politics: "I advise Tories to vote Tory. Socialism won't work unless you love your neighbors. I find that so many people don't love their neighbors." On longevity: "Years ago I thought old age would be dreadful because I would not be able to do all the things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do, after...
Mountain Ape-Men. More famed are the "abominable snowmen" or "yetis" of the Himalaya and central Asia. Heuvelmans is almost sure that they exist, and he marshals elaborate evidence to prove it. There may be two kinds-a monstrous, hairy creature 8 ft. tall, and a smaller one no bigger than a man. The monks of one Tibetan monastery display to travelers the scalp of an alleged snowman, and Heuvelmans argues that its hair pattern, much like a gorilla's, proves it is not a fake made out of some animal's skin. The remains of giant...
...could be both cheap and strong. The son of a Catalan mathematics professor, Torroja trained as an engineer at Madrid University, then worked for five years as a contractor before finally deciding that "the structure of concrete cannot be figured mathematically-it is much stronger than the mathematician can prove, and you can't wait for the mathematician. You have to go ahead and try what you know by intuition." To prove his theory of intuition, he founded his own Technical Institute of Construction and Cement, kept it going on a shoestring...