Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would not consider the customs of the people," wrote her chief. "I returned her to the States. This pleased many people, not because they disliked the woman, but because they wanted the right to have their own way of life recognized." In a similar vein, the corpsmen learned the proper way for a woman to offer cigarettes to a Buddhist priest: put the pack on a rock, since the priests cannot receive anything directly from female hands. ¶ It is not always necessary to observe local customs, but it is always advisable to find a graceful way of refusing...
...driver goes into the glass-front restaurant where vending machines offer precooked meals, prepared by contract with Stouffer Corp. He carries his food to a quick-cooking microwave oven, presses a colored timer button that matches the color code on the package, and his meal is heated for the proper length of time. When the red light flashes and the bell rings, the diner, who by now feels a kinship to Pavlov's dog, gets his chow on disposable plates...
...peers, Zanuck earlier told Gavin that he thought Mickey Rooney would be right for the part). French Actor-Director Jean-Louis Barrault will appear as the abbe of Sainte-Mere-Eglise. Model Irina Demich, known previously only to Zanuck, will play a young Resistance heroine. She already has a proper military attitude: "All I can think of is to make a success in this picture and to do what Mr. Zanuck expects...
More Than a Hole. The U.S. Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization has set forth clear specifications on what is-and what is not-a proper fallout shelter...
...concurrently by another crew. If a silo is out of round by half an inch, the steel crib on which a missile rests will not fit correctly. Says a project engineer: "Our assembly line stretches from San Diego, Calif., to Plattsburgh, N.Y., and when everything comes together at the proper time, the fit has to be exact, sometimes down to a thousandth of an inch. It's a more difficult design and construction challenge than building the missiles themselves...