Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schoolgirl test began to crumble in 1933 with the famed ruling by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, which held that James Joyce's Ulysses was not obscene -despite its impudent pudendicity and ovablastic genitories -since the "proper test" is a book's "dominant effect." In 1957, in decisions that upheld the conviction of two mail-order pornography dealers, the U.S. Supreme Court finally defined its own views on the matter. First, it flatly denied the smut peddlers' contention that the 1st and 14th Amendments guaranteeing freedom of speech and press gave them...
...government victories over the past month can be credited largely to the application of U.S. air power within South Viet Nam proper. Kills by air strikes mounted from 30% of 1964's Viet Cong toll to a remarkable 87% last month. Greater U.S. involvement has also boosted South Vietnamese morale. Still, no U.S. or South Vietnamese officials were naive enough to believe that the tide had yet turned in the overall battle. Political instability is still rife in Saigon, where last week a brief mutiny threatened Admiral Chung Tan Cang, boss of the South Vietnamese navy...
...They work hard as hell in America," complains Daouphars. "And all that air conditioning doesn't do any good. Funny thing, too-both my wife and I ate hardly anything-toast for breakfast, soup for lunch, a bit of meat for dinner. But, due to a lack of proper exercise, I had a huge belly hanging out in front...
...Among proper-Bostonian Lowells and Lodges, the Cabots are known for "customs, not manners," and there is no more bohemian Brahmin than Harvard's stocky, cigar-smoking treasurer, Paul Codman Cabot, 66. Fiercely energetic, shatteringly frank, he can curse like a barge captain, yet guide a big investment like the skipper of a liner. Last week, two months before his mandatory retirement, he achieved a lifetime goal by pushing the market value of Harvard's investments past $1 billion. No other university comes close to such an endowment...
...heartiest applause came when speakers stepped down from the podium. Laughter, cheers, hisses, so lusty in the heyday of political activism at Harvard two years ago, were scarcely dared. People came to be educated, and in the proper Harvard manner were tastefully bored...