Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Medicine & Baptism. Riou's competitors are voodoo witch doctors, called bocors, whom some islanders still prefer. A few days ago, Riou barely saved an old man's life by stripping a voodoo bandage of rotten leaves from his dangerously infected foot and applying proper treatment. There are other superstitions. Once Riou asked a mother whether she had given her seriously sick baby medicine the hospital had provided. "No, Father," she replied. "Why not?" he asked. The cryptic reply: "He's not baptized yet." Haitian peasants consider a child before baptism only a brute animal on which medicines...
...lamps are set pointing upward at angles that mark out the glide path. When the pilot makes the proper approach, he sees on each side of the runway two bars of lights. The near group is white, the far group red (see diagram). As long as they stay that way, he is doing all right. But if the white lights turn pink or red, he is approaching too low. If the red lights turn pink or white, he is too high. He has plenty of time to get in the slot. Even with brilliant sunlight competing with the lights, they...
Come Dance With Me is the intricate tale of a young Parisienne's attempts to clear her husband of a murder charge by nudging the gendarmes along what she thinks to be the proper course to justice. Whom she is accusing depends on how much of the movie has elapsed, since in its two hours she manages to suspect and unsuspect a sizable number of the cast...
...Colonel Joseph Mobutu's ragtag army up in flames. Besides, President Joseph Kassvubu was dead against it. To prop up Mobutu would incur the wrath of many of the U.N.'s African member nations, for they insist that Lumumba is the only-or at least the legally proper-man for the job. And just as Hammarskjold was preparing to dispatch a 15-man African and Asian conciliation commission to seek a fresh approach to the whole mess, the U.N. Congo chief, India's Rajeshwar Dayal, sent back urgent word: Don't let them come...
Greenburg is at work on a massive book (100,000 words so far) calling for integrated teaching in U.S. education. Passionate on the subject of "uneducated educators" (especially college presidents), he says that education will return to its proper role of "perspective" only when it rediscovers teachers with "the intellectual guts to expose themselves to criticism and improvement." For five years Greenburg has exposed himself on San Antonio's commercial station WOAI-TV, driven his viewers to read one "great book" a week and sit still for the torrent of gibes, jokes, sneers and slang that he delivers with...