Word: unproven
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...committee postponed the decision, chiefly to avoid a partisan showdown. But Republican Representative Delbert Latta of Ohio, a Nixon defender, maintained in retrospect: "If we'd defined an impeachable offense to begin with, we wouldn't have gone so slowly. It would have been clear that largely unproven charges weren't going to be relevant." He was referring to allegations of misconduct that were arguably constitutional or legal, such as impoundment of funds, the secret bombing of Cambodia and the ITT case. The evidence on those matters took one full day and two afternoons to present...
...credibility and respect that you gained from serious journalism over the last ten years. Samuel Johnson observed that tradition is fragile, like a meteor which, once fallen, cannot be rekindled. In publishing what appears to be a series of personal vendettas aimed a the tarnishing of reputations through unproven accusations and half-stated implications, you have demonstrated its fragility by debasing a tradition some of us had relied on for truth. whether or not it can be rekindled remains to be seen. George Schreiner '71 Harvard Medical School
...track team is unproven," McCurdy said, "but if some of these inexperienced runners live up to their potential, and we come together as a team, it could be very good...
...into the real world, and best Mr. Nixon at his own strategies. He says Congress cannot make him spend money by legislating expenditures. But how long will Congress tolerate that kind of arrogance? The American people are waking up. Peace with honor in Vietnam is for now an unproven proposition. But should it last, I for one want no part of a post-war generation which repeats the horrible mistakes of its forebears. Count me out of Mr. Nixon's New Majority of comfortable Americans who leave the poor, the deprived, the sick and the old to tend for themselves...
...patients such dietary don'ts as mayonnaise, heavy cream, butter, steaks and lobster, but limits them to a maximum of 40 grams of carbohydrates daily. Dr. Charles Roland of the Mayo Clinic says that "despite Atkins' sweeping generalizations and exuberant confidence, his thesis rests largely on unproven assumptions...