Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy's swing is smooth; his stance is good, his grip is proper and his backswing is slow. He normally gets between 225 and 250 yds. on his drives, but he is troubled by a hook. He is often sharp with his short irons (on a recent Palm Beach outing he unnerved his companions by dropping an approach shot for a birdie 3 on the first hole), and his putting is excellent. He is weakest with his long irons. Says Crosby: "He tops the ball. There's a term we have for that-menacing the field mice...
...these stories are the work of Education Editor Robert Shnayerson, 34, who himself attended twelve schools as a child, ranging from extremely progressive to proper prep. He particularly recalls the four years he spent at now-defunct Manumit School at Pawling, N.Y., "a strange school on a farm. We drove trucks at nine years and plowed with tractors, slaughtered pigs and took care of the cows. But I didn't learn anything about anything." He joined the Navy at 17, for three wartime years in the North Atlantic...
...League of Gentlemen. Ex-Colonel Jack Hawkins leads a proper platoon of the Queen's Own Down-and-Outers against the outmanned forces of law and order...
None of these things bothers Ted Dealey, who thinks of the News as a pulpit and of its readers as a congregation: "We feel a duty along the lines of leading them in thought along the proper channels. We are just the same as we always were. I'd say the left has just moved farther left. The leftist influence has gotten so much stronger that we have got to holler louder to make ourselves heard." On those terms, the News is a hollering success...
...Loses Legs. Some style books draw exquisitely fine beads on proper form. The Salt Lake City Tribune explains the distinction between three cupfuls of sugar and three cups full of sugar, and softly suggests the typographical peril in such words as "shot, suit, short, shift, skit, etc." The Detroit News confidently calls a girl a girl until she reaches 21, when she becomes a woman; at 17 a boy becomes a youth, at 21 a man. "Beware of such relative descriptions as elderly, aged or old," says the Washington Post and Times Herald. "Few men under 70 would appreciate those...