Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, Spaak needed little urging to leave NATO. He has long felt stymied in his efforts to extend NATO beyond what the U.S. and several other Western powers feel is its proper function as a defensive military alliance. They have blocked Spaak's efforts to mold NATO into a political and economic force capable of combating Communist infiltration in Africa and Asia, argued that NATO is not the proper organization for economic enterprise. At the NATO ministers' meeting last December, Britain's Foreign Secretary, Lord Home, vetoed a suggestion for NATO aid to underdeveloped nations, said that...
...eventual formation of such a program is not only necessary, but likely, according to Merle Fainsod, professor of Government. Fainsod affirmed yesterday that the creation of an African Studies Program only awaits a proper man around whom to build...
...Ahram, that it has even caused good Arabic names to be debased and mispronounced. His examples: the name of Guinea's President, Sékou Touré, is a corruption of Sheikh el Tarika (meaning chief of tribe); Mali's President Modibo Keita is properly Muadab Kita (meaning polite); Nigeria's Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa should be called Abu Bakr Abu Eleiwa (all proper names...
...alacrity, and eventually even the Cubans could not stomach the man they called "the butcher." Last May, Marks fled Cuba in a boat, made it to Florida and disappeared into Mexico. Last week he was arrested in Manhattan, charged with illegally entering the U.S. on July 22 without a proper visa. Deportation proceedings are under way to send him back to Mexico-or Cuba...
Died. Irving Lorge, 55, research psychologist and authority on intelligence testing who decried the theory of the immutable intelligence quotient, held instead that proper schooling could raise a child's IQ by 20 points; of a heart attack; in New York City. An outspoken theorist who never lost sight of practicalities, Lorge rewrote wartime OPA regulations into understandable English as part of a crusade for greater readability in public documents, insisted that trashy books do not cause juvenile delinquency and argued that teachers ought to learn the lingo of their students...