Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advance that they wanted a human heart for a transplant. They figured that one could be taken from a relatively young patient dying of brain damage, and that it could be placed in a man dying of incurable heart-muscle failure. But how were they to find the proper brain patient dying just when the proper heart patient was waiting...
...column. Mostly, she has confined her monologues to parties and daily appearances on radio and TV, but neither medium was just the right setting for a woman with Pamela's natural dagger-turn of phrase. Last week she announced that she was about to be put in her proper place at last. Soon, she said, she will begin writing a Hollywood column just like Hedda and Lolly. Columnist Mason's paper: The Chicago Sun-Times...
...funds-Judge East ordered the U.S. to pay Strayer $3,804. East's elegant reasoning: "The Fifth Amendment guarantees that private property shall not be taken for a public use without just compensation." In short, a lawyer's services are private property and cannot be commandeered without proper recompense. Result (if the decision stands up): a well-paid lawyer for a well-represented indigent...
Wearing baubles, bangles and basic black, the guests seemed a chain of paper dolls, cut out along dotted lines and attached by tabs to the proper gilt chair. Chums for an instant, they crossed their silken legs as one, juggled cigarettes and sipped champagne. Rivals in fact, the 145 department store executives, buyers and fashion journalists who jammed the salon were on hand for the showing of Norman Norell's fall collection. The last of Manhattan's month-long season, it was also, as nearly always, the best...
...there was always a balance of nicely aimed journalistic needling. Neither liberals nor middle-of-the-roaders were spared the Review's witty and often savage prose. There was also a leaven of practical politics. And it was hardly surprising that, when the intellectuals of conservatism spotted a proper champion, they announced his candidacy before he got around to doing it himself. In April 1963, National Review began its Barry Goldwater for President campaign...