Word: proving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announce his candidacy, and though he did so outside the Gaullist party in an appeal for a broad consensus, he became the party's unanimous candidate almost immediately. Meanwhile, the opposition parties seemed determined to fulfill all of De Gaulle's most scornful descriptions of them and to prove the old maxim that four Frenchmen locked in a room together are likely to emerge with five political parties. In the course of their first-week search to mount a challenge to Gaullism, they only managed to stumble over one another in a parody of the Alphonse-Gaston...
...cardinals' investiture ceremonies - which included a Solemn Pontifical Mass concelebrated by the Pope and the new members of the Sacred College - Paul announced what may prove to be his most significant piece of news: the appointment of a new Secretary of State. The man that he chose was France's Jean Cardinal Villot, 63. He succeeds the ailing, 86-year-old Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, at one time the apostolic delegate...
...last year's first quarter to 2.8% in this year's first quarter. Even so, a FORTUNE survey shows that businessmen are still in an expansionist mood; 77% of those polled expect further increase in sales over the next twelve months. If the leading indicators prove correct, some abrupt changes of mind and manner are in prospect...
...included in the rutting. But Pasolini has other excesses in mind. When the visitor departs, he leaves behind a shrilling choir of victims. The daughter (Anne Wiazemsky) becomes catatonic; the son, an artist, urinates on his paintings; the wife turns nymphomaniac. The maid becomes a martyr who levitates to prove her sanctity, and the father strips to the buff in a Milan railroad station, then flees to the Dolomites bellowing like an enraged bull...
...first-degree verdict and the death sentence showed how little impact the defense had had in trying to prove with psychiatric testimony that Sirhan was incapable of telling right from wrong. It was the uncomplicated, law-and-order approach by the prosecution that convinced the jury. "Sirhan Sir han was entitled to a fair trial," Prosecuting Attorney John Howard told the jurors in arguing against a life sentence. "He has no special claim to further preservation...