Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only one substantive issue still made campaign headlines-Cuba. Democrats, predictably, leaped to line up behind the President, argued that Cuba was no longer a proper matter for debate. Said Colorado's Democratic Senator John A. Carroll: "At this crucial moment in our history, I earnestly hope that no one will attempt to make political capital of our situation in Cuba or in Berlin." Retorted Carroll's G.O.P. opponent, Republican Peter Dominick: "I strongly supported prohibiting the granting of foreign aid to Cuba in both the 1961 and 1962 foreign aid acts. I have publicly urged the creation...
Cold Baths & Indian Clubs. Cabot was an indelibly Proper Bostonian-but of a special sort. For most of his adult life, he kept to a stern schedule: up at 7 a.m., a cold bath, breakfast at 7:15 (all Beacon Hill breakfasts included oatmeal; Cabot took his with bananas). He never really accepted the advent of the automobile, always walked the four or five miles downtown to his office and back, striding determinedly across the traffic-clogged streets, looking neither to right nor left. Six days a week, year after year, decade after decade, his employees could set their watches...
Indeed, he collected variations of the doggerel, some of them slightly ribald. Among the most proper...
...time catching up with Cora. And just such delays have probably encouraged other phenol-formula peddlers to grab for a fast buck elsewhere. An establishment in Westport, Conn. (TIME, Sept. 15, 1961), was shut down only last year. But Federal Judge Roger Foley did his best to supply a proper deterrent; he sentenced Cora Galenti to five years in prison, plus five years on probation during which she must not teach or practice rejuvenation...
...Nevada gambling casino. Led by Provost Frederick E. Terman, the university's own first-rate engineering school produced such electronic inventions as the klystron tube, which in turn spurred a space-age complex around Palo Alto that now comprises more than 200 companies. Today the campus proper boasts a 500-acre industrial park...