Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been broadcasting a daily indoctrination program entitled Service with a Smile, and the city's 800 taxi drivers had been sent to school for an intensive two-week course in basic French and elementary courtesy. The cabbies have even been ordered to make sure they stick to the proper attire: black trousers, white shirts and black ties...
...liquid-hydrogen-fueled Centaur rocket such derisive nicknames as "the Hangar Queen" and "the Edsel of the Missile Industry." But as it separated from its Atlas booster and ignited in a burst of pale blue flame high above the Atlantic Ocean last week, Centaur took on its proper dignity. The most powerful rocket of its size in the world, built to fire a one-ton Surveyor spacecraft to the moon, the 48-ft. Centaur shoved a dum my Surveyor into a perfect flight toward a preselected point in space, 240,000 miles from earth...
...only did the trouble-plagued Pratt & Whitney hydrogen engines take full charge in flight, but the guidance for the General Dynamics rocket sys tem checked out perfectly. Centaur soared into an orbit that was so exact that had Surveyor carried the proper equipment, it could have made a slight mid-course correction and been on its way to the moon...
...pleased to see proper recognition of Gaudier-Brzeska in TIME [July 23]. I do not, however, own an estate in the Tyrol. The bust referred to is, for the present, at my son-in-law's there...
...York Hilton, he fitted out a service elevator as a speedy, efficient pantry for Continental breakfasts: one man, instead of the usual three, takes an order on the telephone, warms rolls and pours coffee while the elevator moves, then delivers it to the proper floor. Another Tabler innovation: a strip of black paint in place of black tile on the bottom of closets (saving...