Word: proving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strategic terms, the Soviet involvement in the Middle East could prove an even more hazardous venture. Having assumed the role of armorers and advisers to the Arabs,, they can preserve and extend their influence only if they succeed in substantially improving Arab military capability. As the Arabs improve under Russian tutelage, however, they will grow increasingly impatient to tackle the Israelis once more-and invite another humiliation. As one Russian military adviser recently told an East European ambassador in Cairo, it will take "a generation" for Egyptian military skills to exceed Israel's. Whether the Egyptians or their brethren...
...will be required to report all they saw that night. If they claim that a lawyer-client relationship existed between them and Kennedy, they still must testify, but they may not, by law, be asked to relate their conversations with Kennedy unless the Senator agrees to let them. To prove such a relationship, they must show that Kennedy asked for advice on a legal matter. Even so, neither would be immune from prosecution later if any evidence should be discovered that they were co-conspirators to a criminal...
Urey himself believes that if the moon does indeed prove to be "cold," its virtually intact primordial surface may provide not only important clues about the moon's beginnings but also about the origin of the solar system. The most ancient rocks found on earth are 3.3 billion years old, or more than a billion years younger than the planet itself, and the moon rocks from the Sea of Tranquillity are about the same age. Nonetheless, Urey and other cold-moon proponents think that when men reach the lunar highlands, which are generally considered to be older than...
...they have at long last come of age." Because providing those experiences is not the chief function of most educational institutions, "colleges must inevitably disappoint the students where their greatest need lies. Campus rebellion seems to offer youth a chance to short-cut the time of empty waiting and prove themselves real adults...
...vital buoyancy of optimism. Eventually he hopes to establish that anticipating significant events can help people to live longer, a finding that could lead to important changes in the psychological treatment of the elderly and the seriously ill. If further study bears out this hypothesis, Phillips says, it will prove that "dying can be a form of social behavior...