Word: proving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remembered for anything, it will have to be for his undying dedication to his people, a quality not found too often in our politicians today, and they prove it after they're elected...
...York Post , the University of Miami, SNCC, the CIA, Dore Schary and Conrad Hilton. The play is not outwardly disturbing, and yet one cannot help but cringe a bit with every joke. The authoress holds out no hope for anyone, and I can't imagine how anyone could prove her wrong...
...shared a belief that their literary squabbles were deadly serious engagements in a battle for the keys to the kingdom of the mind. Scientists, today's high priests, may regard their theories as the most important thing on earth; after all, there is the conquered moon to prove it. But once Carlyle could say, and be believed, that the man of letters is "our most important modern person." Since then, something has happened to reduce the bookman to a mere bookworm. The man of letters, according to Evelyn Waugh, belongs to an extinct species-like maiden aunts...
...AFTER THE COMMITTEE OF FIFTEEN completed its disciplinary proceedings, the Freund Committee and the Joint Committee began considering the case of 14 Corporation appointees arrested in the April occupation. Last week. the Joint Committee announced what is likely to prove its most controversial decision. Jack Stauder, Instructor in Social Relations, and head of the radical course Soc Rel 149, had his two-year teaching appointment reduced to one year, with the stipulation that he cannot teach during the first semester of his remaining term as instructor. Twelve of the other 13 arrested are either not returning to Harvard...
...added that his labor relations experience should prove helpful because "in labor relations one learns to listen to people-not only to the words they say but to the meaning between the lines...