Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means a sign that he could count on their support at the U.N. The only General Assembly votes Khrushchev could be utterly sure of were those of the Soviet satellites (see box), plus that of Cuba's ineffable Fidel Castro-who was put into his proper slot by a State Department decision to restrict him to Manhattan Island along with Khrushchev, Hungary's Janos Kadar and Albania's Mehmet Shehu...
...transfer Lumumba to another prison. Once beyond the gates, Lumumba located 40 friendly soldiers and rolled back downtown, with sirens screaming, shouting. "Today victory is mine. Death to the imperialists!" Once again he headed for Radio Congo. Once again his path was barred, this time by Ghana's proper, British-trained Lieut. Colonel Nathan Aferi. Roared Lumumba in impotent rage: "Let me pass, you black, imperialist bushman...
...when a starched and proper young Irishman named John Francis Fitzpatrick arrived in Salt Lake City, capital of predominantly Mormon Utah, he found a mud-flinging contest going on between Salt Lake City's morning paper, the Gentile* Tribune, and the Saints' own evening Deseret News...
...pedigrees of 654 winners back through twelve generations and made the startling discovery that 770/4,096 of the blood of each horse came from an English stallion named Herod, in 1758. Vuillier then set about breeding horses to duplicate this precise percentage of Herod's blood, plus the proper proportions of blood from the 19th century progenitors. Although she was trained for a career as a concert pianist, Mme Vuillier absorbed the theory well that the old Aga Khan himself persuaded her to take over the job of breeding manager when her husband died...
Each winter Mme. Vuillier pores over the genealogies of the world's outstanding horses to find the proper blends of blood that will produce a winner. Says she: "Call me, if you will, a 'mixer of cocktails.' " She avoids the common practice of inbreeding her own horses on the ground that it weakens the strain. She often mates two glue-footed platers "We're just looking for a pair of horses with the right traits that will dominate m the offspring," she explains. "The chance of producing a winner from two outstanding horses is smaller than...