Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council shall meet at least twice each month during the regular academic year, after proper notification by the Chairman or Secretary. A majority of the executive committee or one-half of the Council shall have the power to call special meetings...
...Mary Yeomans). The butcher is a steady boozer who loathes the "lousy forriners'' he works with and keeps squalling:' "Speak bloody English!" The vegetable cook is a soiled blimp who waggles her massive breasts at the salad chef but insists that the lower echelons observe the proper necking order. The proprietor is a muttering overfed Levantine who furtively patrols the shadows, peering suspiciously at his employees, flapping his jowls and sobbing quietly: "Sabotage...
Poets, like pumps, sometimes need priming. Schiller kept a drawer full of rotten apples, and sniffed at them whenever he required inspiration. When Shelley decided to invite his soul he took off all his clothes and wandered about the house, oblivious to the shrieks of such proper English ladies as happened to be taking tea with Mrs. Shelley. Pulitzer Prize Poet Robert Lowell (Lord Weary's Castle) likes to rouse his sleeping powers by flirting with other men's muses-he writes what he calls "imitations" of poems in other languages...
Others argued that the change in name would do little if anything to deter those who might use it to the detriment of the organization, and said proper election of council officers and reservation of the right of impeachment are more important than a name change. One student called the name "Innocuous" and said if the student council really means it is as "Innocuous" a body as the new name implies, then there is no reason for its continued existence...
...dominated the news since.") But at its current price of ten cents, Tocsin's forum will never reach beyond a very select minority. All undergraduate pamphleteers would do well to remember that they are writing for a relatively well-informed audience. Goading the masses is not a proper Tocsin function, though urging concerned Harvard students to goad them may well...