Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naturally we share every American's desire not to have any of our nuclear secrets given away, and when in doubt always clear with proper authority in Washington discreet information that we sometimes come across. But we don't think a political decision to minimize an event for propaganda reasons is quite the same thing; we think it conflicts with a basic national right to be told as much as possible (within the limits of security) about a program that has so much importance to us and to the world, that costs so much money, and that ultimately...
...frontier bridge between Hong Kong and Red China, a beefy Australian-born constable said: 'The only real problem is sending back the ones who don't have proper papers. Why, sometimes, they fall flat down and holler bloody murder. But we just pick 'em up and carry 'em to the bridge and send 'em back." Defensively, he added: "What are we gonna do with 'em? Hong Kong's bursting at the seams with Chinese refugees. Formosa won't have them. The United States has a strict quota system...
...hearty, pipe-smoking man of 54, Cambridge-born Tom Eliot was never much of a proper Bostonian anyway. A son of Samuel A. Eliot, the famed Unitarian minister, he pronounced himself a Democrat at the age of ten. He alone voted for Woodrow Wilson in a class poll at Browne and Nichols School, and after earning a magna cum laude in government at Harvard in 1928 and a Harvard law degree in 1932, he enlisted in F.D.R.'s New Deal.* As a Labor Department lawyer, Blueblood Democrat Eliot helped arbitrate the San Francisco general strike in 1934. As general...
...welcoming job led to another. When the Prince of Wales arrived in 1919, Whalen startled the world by ordering tons of confetti to be poured upon the parade from the windows over Lower Broadway, and from that day on, a Ticker-Tape Parade was deemed the only proper demonstration of affection for a conquering hero. Queen Marie of Rumania got it, and so did President Wilson, Gen eral Pershing, Bobby Jones, Connie Mack, Albert Einstein, Eisenhower, Truman, MacArthur. and scores and scores of others. All the while, under seven mayors, Whalen served the city without salary...
Guiding Stars. Instruments both on the bomber and the missiles will watch the stars before launch (even in daylight) and jointly keep track of the plane's position above the surface of the earth. When a target has been selected, the bomber's crew will crank the proper instructions into the computers carried by the four Skybolts. At the press of a button, the birds will be on the wing, heading in salvo for a single target or spreading out on individual courses to clobber widely separated cities...