Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warming up at a press conference for a bit of political education work among his Iowa minions in Des Moines. Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa righteously excoriated Old Enemy Bobby Kennedy for "acting like a little hoodlum" and "not representing this country's democracy in a proper manner." The Attorney General's offense: "He travels around the world in his shirtsleeves...
...Bradshaw's fellow players give him varying degrees of support. Madeline Rosten, as Barbara Allen, is a bit stolid on occasion, but she has the proper amount of scorn and sinfulness. Gary Zukav gives the part of Barbara's father an Andy Griffith reading, which somehow seems out of place, but he is funny. So is George Blecher, as Barbara's half-wit brother...
...University feels it doesn't that kind of guidance," he a proper matter for the University to decide...
...into ex pensive competition with the radio and TV programs, the phone calls, and all the other electronic chitchat, which now jump in short line-of-sight hops from coast to coast. Instead, the computer men are mak ing use of a basic but seldom used proper ty of microwaves...
Changing Rules. Optimists argue that the statistics on housing starts, although weighted to take into account the normal winter slump in building, do not make proper allowance for the fact that the recent winter was the worst in 50 years in many parts of the U.S. The optimists believe that many builders who sat on their permits during the winter will hatch them this spring. They point out that, historically, all but 1% of the building permits issued in the U.S. are eventually used...