Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was a dirt airstrip but no commercial service. Fishermen caught mackerel and bonito from dugout canoes; farmers marketed vegetables in the central plaza. A couple of temperamental diesel engines generated electricity to light the four-block bay-front promenade, and the townsfolk got along fine without a proper bridge across the Cuale River that split the town. Pedestrians took a swinging footbridge, and Vallarta's five taxis just sloshed across the shallow stream...
...trip to Cuba planned by three Harvard students, however, should provide a clearer test of the right to travel. First, the political beliefs of these students can by no means be considered un-American. Second, rather than openly flouting the ban, the students applied for validated passports through the proper legal channels...
Shelton was not given proper notice of the charges, according to the AAUP, nor a chance to be heard in his own defense with counsel present and a stenographer to record the testimony--although all these provisions appeared in the college's own printed regulations...
...French travelers was trapped, and only two out of 26 survived. Jordanian authorities are anxious to keep the tourists coming, though, and the ancient Siq, reputedly opened by Moses with the flick of a magic rod, is the most dramatic approach to Petra. It would scarcely have seemed proper to install modern water-control devices...
...semi-formal daytime affair or wedding, the strolled coat is the proper thing to wear. The stroller actually is rather similar to the cutaway but it has a conventional coat bottom...