Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ordeal in Camp. Blake's origin was murky enough for any spy. Born in Holland, his father was Egyptian, his mother Dutch. Later she divorced, married an Englishman named Blake, which provided the young son with the proper credentials when he was busy fighting the Nazis as a member of the wartime underground. It was then that he was first recruited by British Intelligence to serve as an agent, later escaping to England...
...conversation continued. Shepard's voice was clear and controlled. After maneuvering his capsule, he reported that it had assumed the proper attitude for firing its three braking retrorockets. They were not necessary for the flight; this time they were fired for practice. Then the retro package was jettisoned. Preparing for descent, Shepard reported that his periscope had retracted. As the capsule plunged downward into the atmosphere, and the Gs of deceleration climbed toward a punishing 10, the astronaut's voice grew gruff as he strained to make his breath behave. Then the capsule slowed; his words were distinct...
...Phillips problems, but in the long run it would have seriously limited the Council. Persons interested in the Council Presidency invariably have political interests. The restriction might have prevented political opportunism, but it also would have eliminated many dedicated, able, and talented candidates. A constitutional limitation was hardly the proper remedy. As soon as the Hornblow petiton was defeated, Phillips sensed the next move--a censure. He adjourned the meeting for lack of a quorum (having asked some of his supporters to leave...
...Reminiscent of an old story remembered around Cambridge about an indignant proper Bostonian who complained that Harvard students were rowdies and urged President (1909-33) Abbott Lawrence Lowell to lock the Yard gates. Lowell's polite reply: "Should I lock the students...
...says he cannot afford a regular private school, is equally incensed. "They seem not to care that in public school the children would have to drop back academically Trifans' two or lawyer three argues years," he says. The Trifans' lawyer argues that the issue is basically the proper education of gifted children-"the greatest dilemma facing the schools in the country today, with the possible exception of segregation...