Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While it would perhaps be too much to thank the Cambridge Police force for making rioting a pleasure, it is entirely proper to thank them for making it safe. Even their use of tear gas is--in retrospect--understandable, for it, too, probably saved a few people from really hurting themselves. In New Haven, Harvard students should remember, they do things differently...
Late in the campaign, "every minute of the candidate's time is blood," he said, stressing the need for proper schedule planning. "Every morning he should get up by 5:30 or 6 a.m., be out in front of some plant or factory handing out literature," Napolitan added...
...effort falls a little short because of the difficulty of his endeavor. Consistently amusing without being flip or irrelevant, he introduces an extremely improbable character who worships and lives by the words of an extremely Improbable pair of writers, Thoreau and Wilhelm Reich. But to make music of proper names requires a talent approximating Joyce's, and while Ludwig has done well enough indeed, the strictures of conventional sentence give much of his prose an unintentionally flat sound...
...Both these assumptions are sheer nonsense. The peasant may be illerate, but he is not stupid, and he is as keenly aware as any anthropologist of the social divisions in his own world. He will expect the American teacher to live as a teacher, not as a peasant. The proper and desirable course of action for the Peace Corps mem- bers is for him to live on approximately the same level as citizens of the host country who have equivalent training and hold equivalent positions...
...because he was always "bobbitting about." In 1917 he was thrown out of Rugby on circumstantial evidence of thievery. Though innocent, Ionides was scarcely helped by the fact that he was a known poacher of pheasants and that his desk drawer contained two loaded revolvers. Though his family was proper Edwardian and had been in England for generations, he was also tagged as "the Greek" and as "Ironhides" for his stoic composure under the most severe canings...