Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order sterilization, and only for two classes of persons-rapists of young children and state-confined sex degenerates. To Lawyer Silver, at least, a California municipal court judge has no right whatever to place fathers unable to support young children in the same category. Procedure that seemed perfectly proper to Justice Holmes in the '20s, Silver argues, is cruel and unusual punishment...
...mess in the Congo to De Gaulle's recognition of Red China: "Our candidate has not yet mentioned that it was during the Kennedy-Johnson years that the blue whale became commercially extinct." ∙The Wichita, Kans., Eagle affected dismay after Johnson kissed a baby: "Is it proper for the President to expose himself to the afflictions which beset the nursery crowd? Measles or whooping cough in the White House could have repercussions for the whole free world." ∙The Washington Star was amused by the Johnsonian declaration that "for the first time in history, profits are higher than...
...Proper Share. "The Russians managed to weasel their way into that one," said Townes's loyal wife in an interview on WNEW, a Manhattan radio station. "They don't deserve it." But her scientific husband was more scientifically detached. "They are fine scientists," he said. "They have done important work in this field and quite properly share in the prize...
...administration's justification of the new ruling is two-pronged: the "wild card" use of the fifth course is not "respectable," and it engenders administrative complexities regarding proper tuition charges. We sympathize with the first argument; but it is important to remember, that, whatever the abuses, the old rule gives an appreciable number of students an opportunity to diversify their education or deepen their knowledge of their specific field. Moreover, even among those who have dropped their fifth course late in the term, there have surely been many who have enrolled in perfectly good faith, and only late...
Miller hopes his dramas will yield more than that "proper purgation of pity and fear" that Aristotle called catharsis. He hopes they will bring enlightenment to his audience. Peter Skolnik's production is loaded with pity and fear. He has put together an altogether stunning show. But understanding there is none. I left the Loeb as confused as Eddie Carbone...