Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heart of my heart," crooned Massachusetts' junior Senator from the middle of the dance floor. "Alouette," he began, jabbing the air with his forefinger like a President, to get everyone singing in the proper sequence. Someone struck up a limbo, and Teddy craned backward under a broom with the best of them. With or without benefit of Kennedys, it was like that in the bars all over town-conviviality rather than disorder, the young mingling easily with their elders and betters...
...artery, so the arm is more handicapped than the leg. This is why 90% of stroke victims learn to walk again, while only 10% to 20% regain full use of the right arm-though almost 50% of those under 45, even with severe impairment, could probably do so with proper training...
...Hang Seng men greeted incoming refugees, helped to straighten out their visa and legal problems and to find them homes. Today, Hang Seng sometimes seems to be one big Chinese mutual aid society devoted to sending mourners to its clients' funerals and helping clients' children choose the proper Western university from a Hang Seng-published catalogue. But it also offers more solid inducements. Hang Seng stays open at least an hour later than other Hong Kong banks and pays its 110,000 depositors higher interest than its rivals offer...
...first, the sacred area was outside the city wall. When the enclosure was built, a fortification wall extended the area of the city to the west, but the sacred area remained undisturbed, though now it was inside the city proper...
...lend more than equivocal support to U Thant's campaign. Considered in any light, the U.N. mission was bound to raise welts on British backs, and so the Foreign Secretary also clung nervously to possible alternatives. In the shadow of Lord Home's strikingly Gaullist pronouncements on the proper function of the U.N. lay two profound fears: that the new federation would injure British financial interests in Katanga, and that the casques bleus would march firmly into any settlement of the touchy Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland...