Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operator of the club "did not keep proper files and was lax in replying to complaints," the Post Office said, but the complaints were few in comparison to the number of orders shipped. The club has since adjusted these few complaints...
...governor a four-year term, it proceeded to knock it down in the next session. Many of the possible changes are, indeed, very much against the interest of the legislators and their friends. And political interest aside, the side and turmoil of the Legislature rule it out as the proper place to make a thoughtful and comprehensive revision of the state's basic structure...
While most press observers felt that the New Frontier was in sight, there was wide speculation about its climate and the style of its economy, and about a Frontiersman's proper pace. The Kansas City Times studied the Kennedy task-force recession report and was reassured: "We have the impression that the New Frontier is to be approached warily." The Reporter magazine called for the spur: "The men in the new Administration perforce have to be men of action." Rowland Evans Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune's Washington bureau filed a weather forecast on Kennedy...
Cuddled Recruits. Candidates for chimponaut training are first screened for alertness and proper age (under three years). They are given numbers and dog tags like other Air Force recruits and are isolated for 45 days for detailed health checkups. Because juvenile chimps need loving care, they get plenty of cuddling and attention from human attendants...
Defeated VIP. A typical task taught to chimponauts requires them to watch three shapes flashed on a screen and decide by pushing the proper lever which shape is not like either of the others. By doing this correctly 18 times, a chimp earns a banana-flavored food pellet. Some of them become amazingly skillful. The champion so far is a chimp that worked the levers 7,000 times in 70 minutes with only 32 errors. A human VIP visiting the lab rashly tried the same task and made a much lower score...