Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time of day that he could get guaranteed, live, national network coverage for his big announcement. Said Rocky: "I am here this morning-and I shall go to New Hampshire immediately following this meeting-formally to announce my candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination and my entry, at the proper time, in the New Hampshire primary election of March...
...Lady) because of "the love and favor and affection which they bear toward their parents." A few weeks before, Lord Home shed his own title to become just plain Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and that made the noble bit a little conspicuous for the children. Meriel took a proper commoner job as salesgirl at Bumpus, London's venerable bookshop. A photographer caught her melding into her new scenery during lunch hour, going shopping like everyone else...
...could be as rough on lawyers as on defendants, often barked his caustic impatience when counsel seemed to him to be sluggish or ill-prepared. "His facial expressions and gestures," said one critic, "his intonations, his pauses at the proper moment, all clearly indicate his belief or disbelief in a witness' testimony." He got into rows with his colleagues too, once said in open court that he hoped another judge would "keep his filthy mouth shut." The remark brought official rebuke for "using a courtroom as a forum for vilification of a fellow jurist...
Lacking any plausible alternative, most churchmen conclude that preacher shopping is likely to go on forever. As the chairman of a pulpit committee for a Presbyterian church in New York put it, "I don't know if it's the proper way, but it is the Presbyterian way, and I'm stuck with...
Alfred stressed that any course in theatre would require "a solid academic core" in order to be a proper offering by a university faculty. He said he would be opposed to any purely technical courses in directing or staging such as might be given by a professional school of drama...