Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guests, friends of Adams House, and officers of the University celebrated the two-hundredth anniversary of Apthorp House right regally last night. As was fitting and proper for the birthday of the eighteenth century building, now the residence of the Master of Adams House, order, harmony, and good cheer reigned...
...public acts as they affect the whole community the Catholic is bound in conscience to promote the common good and to avoid any seeking of a merely sectarian advantage. He is bound also to recognize the proper scope or independence of the political order...
...week began, the uncommitted scarcely realized how important they had become. Then Nikita Khrushchev strode to the podium to roar Dag Hammarskjold into submission. Hammarskjold, cried Khrushchev, had tried to justify "the bloody crimes perpetrated against the Congolese people by the colonialists and their stooges. It is not proper for a man who has flouted elementary justice to hold such an important post as that of Secretary-General." Khrushchev demanded that Hammarskjold "muster up enough courage to resign...
...proper courting gift for a Dhagestan maiden was a dozen or so severed male right hands, strung on a thong. Imaginative bloodletting was much admired; Afghanistan's rulers executed prisoners by tying them across the muzzles of cannon (until Western diplomats complained of flying flesh) and the Shah of Persia delightedly invented another sort of extinction: extracting the teeth and hammering them into the skull...
After all, most Harvard men and Radcliffe women are sensible, realistic and intelligent; and if any of them genuinely Knows he intends to be a professional theater man, he knows also that his proper place is not here, but in a school devoted singlemindedly to his craft...