Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spanish Civil War. Bayo's dedication reads: "To those who have died and are dying in the filthy dictatorial bourgeoise military oligarchic prisons in Latin America." The students spend from four weeks to a year learning about explosives, weapons and psychological warfare, then return home to await the proper time for action...
...Bronx Catholic high school, the dean greeted two boys with a pair of shears, quickly lopped off their locks. In Houston, the son of a Rice University professor was kicked out of Lamar High School just five days after it opened for refusing to get a "proper haircut." At the Tremper High School in Kenosha, Wis., no less than 175 boys were turned away from the school's doors because of their hairdos...
...practice, and the living problems of school and community. Such confrontations constitute the major channel through which university research and scholarship are linked with the practical enterprises of men. To destroy this channel would, no doubt, result in economies; it would also, however, surely prevent the university from a proper fulfillment of its responsibilities...
...member to each five half-courses a year, and, in more recent years, to teach four half-courses, as a full load. Such a construal of a full load makes it, in our opinion, almost mathematically impossible for the professor to perform excellently in teaching, and to do a proper job in advising doctoral candidates, as well as to perform the research management functions which are requisite for the major research involvements of our School. Our suggestion is to recognize that the formal teaching of courses is only one sort of teaching that goes on in an advanced school...
...legend goes that Irma has haunted the house since its days as a residence, unable to rest because of guilt feelings about some piano lessons she never took proper advantage of. So, invisibly, she takes her place each night and bangs out tunes. The bartender often places a glass of spirits with a straw near the keyboard; it is soon drained. Irma plays a little less surely after that. But she always tries to answer requests, except for songs written after 1932. She died then. Skeptics claim that the music is played by a hidden, live pianist on a keyboard...