Word: proper
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Griswold, for example, was convinced that "Lee Harvey Oswald could not have received a fair trial anywhere in the U.S. and the Supreme Court would have so held." Nothing like the Oswald case, said the Warren Commission, has so dramatized "the need for steps to bring about a proper balance between the right of the public to be kept informed and the right of the individual to a fair and impartial trial...
Here is a proper ethic for a self-possessed, acquisitive people, and here is a bit of the seventeenth century that embodies the principles of the twentieth. If the lessons of Plymouth could inspire the 1860's, the ambitions of Jamestown are suited to our own decade...
...Fein, slender, bespectacled and Milquetoast-mild in appearance, frittered away a small fortune on a pair of extracurricular pursuits-gambling and Gloria Kendal. In her 37 years, the last 16 of them spent as a prostitute and a madam, Gloria has been known by at least 13 other proper names and by any number of improper ones. Whatever her name, Fein certainly did like her game. According to the prosecution, he spent up to $700 a month "in return for the sexual favors rendered by Gloria and her girls," once ran up a $2,000 tab before paying...
...competitive, sophisticated town. But I have never run across one. We are, I think, at a point where to venture into a competitive market requires a great deal of money. And the profit still lies in monopoly situations where, too often, there is more income than excellence. It is proper to ask whether perhaps the newspaper's day has come and gone and television and newsmagazines are here to bury...
CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE: MARTHA QUEST AND A PROPER MARRIAGE by Doris Lessing. 605 pages. Simon & Schuster...