Word: proper
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Contained in President James Monroe's State of the Union message on Dec. 2, 1823, the doctrine declared: "The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers." Implicit in the Monroe Doctrine was the threat that the U.S. would oppose any such European intervention with armed force...
...genteel and proper for students to make these decisions by trying and failing and trying and sometimes succeeding, but that is the way most of us have to make them. To impose on our attempts the barriers of parietal hours designed for antiquated social institutions is barbarous. Why must the rules be a "couple of decades" behind...
...oldest (87) and senior (53 years on Capitol Hill) U.S. Senator, Arizona's Carl Hayden deemed it only proper to set two Princeton profs straight on U.S. history. A passage in their textbook American Democracy and Practice, he pointed out, "is not in accord with the latest edition of the Congressional Directory, which indicates I was re-elected in 1962." That was putting it mildly. The book says Hayden died...
...million proper geese...
...There was no clear relationship between the music and the words. The poem invokes a myriad of very different images: plant metabolism, evaporation, the action of tide and wind, and time, the dripping of blood and the hanging of a man. The music pounded along its atonal course without proper variation in color for the different verses. Borden did demonstrate his sensitivity to the poem, once, with his treatment of the reiterated "And I am dumb ..." lament, but only there...