Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shall be fortunate indeed if he becomes our next President, for he is a man who would steer this nation back to its proper place and would bring back the cherished principles on which it was founded...
Tchin-Tchin is a strange and oddly affecting play in which an Italo-American contractor and a proper Englishwoman are thrown into each other's company because their respective spouses are having an affair. Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn touch the playgoer's nerve ends, crazybones, and heart strings with deceptive ease and authority...
...very proper when she played the London Palladium for the Queen, Singer Eartha Kitt, 34, came back to earth in Bonn at the annual Presseball, which marks the opening of the West German capital's social season. Decked out in a slit gold lame gown, Eartha purred I Want to Be Evil with such wickedness that the high-ranking audience cheered and President Heinrich Lübke came up to congratulate her after the is-minute show. Lübke's wife Wilhelmine insisted on meeting...
...needs in the way of staples and supplies stored in its wafer-thin memory cells). Once at the market, she will plug her computer into a socket in a vacant "delivery alcove" and wait for the results. The computer will carry out the business of identifying itself, making the proper accounting entries in its own memory, and authorizing the charge against its mistress' universal checking account. In less than a minute the order slides down a chute, and the housewife brings home the electronic bacon. Dr. Mauchly, who invented some of the original big computers and has already built...
...been the overhaul of the Council's parliamentary procedure. He was chairman of a special committee to revise the Council's rules; among the more import and changes subsequently adopted was a provision requiring councillors to submit motions at least five days before Council meetings, in order to insure proper consideration by the members...