Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. Despite occasional nonsense in the plot, Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen brighten this comedy about a girl who believes that a mother-to-be has certain responsibilities, such as finding a husband...
Missouri Plan. "The proper use of the elective process is to give the people a choice among well-known candidates publicly committed to well-known views or policies," explains Glenn R. Winters, executive director of the American Judicature Society and a vigorous advocate of better methods for selection of judges. "A candidate for governor can have a platform and make campaign promises. What can a judge promise? To administer justice fairly and impartially to all who come before him. He can promise neither more nor less." Yet the judge's name appears near the bottom of a ticket...
...Only Proper. On the Patscherkofel last week, Zimmermann made like an airplane again-a jet this time. By the time he reached the bottom of the first gentle schuss, he was already traveling at more than 40 m.p.h., and a force of several G's tore at his body as he hit the hollow where Australian Ross Milne lost control in practice and hurtled to his death. Next came a treacherous se ries of bumps: unlike more timid competitors, who hugged the surface, using their legs as shock absorbers, Zimmermann boldly catapulted over the bumps with great, bounding leaps...
Even though the average Harvard student reads a great deal, it is hard to say whether he reads well. Certainly the glib generalizations requested on most exams do not constitute a proper test. It can be said with more certainty, however, that the average Harvard student does not learn to write...
...April-at $50 a crack. Yet a less spectacular target for such frenzied attack could hardly be imagined. The bonefish looks a little like a herring; in fact, it is a kind of herring-long, scaly cigar-shaped body and all. It does not pursue its food like a proper game fish but grubs around the shallows, gulping down evil-smelling worms and other tidbits. People who have sampled its flesh discreetly describe it as "gamy," and even the Japanese can think of nothing better to do with bonefish than grind them up for fish cakes...