Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former speechwriter, Emmet Hughes, who had quit the White House staff in disillusionment with his role there and now was Rocky's policy adviser (TIME, June 20). By using Rocky-Hughes wording, said Ike to Nixon, "you are saying that you and I haven't done a proper...
...exposure may prove to British males what French impresarios have long known: there has never been anything wrong with the basic British face and figure, only with its proper display...
...cleaning India's streets, untouchables must also empty India's privies, carrying away the night soil uncovered in open wheelbarrows or loosely woven baskets or pans borne, coolie-fashion, on the head. Such a practice, said Nehru, is a "disgusting sight. Every sweeper should be given a proper container with...
...free from major disappointments, which could and should have been foreseen and forestalled by Landau and others concerned. The fault, dear reader, is not in ourselves, but in our stars--in this case, two Hollywood movie stars, Katharine Hepburn and Robert Ryan. They are both fine performers in their proper spheres, which in neither case includes Shakespeare. This unsuitability carries with it no ignominy; and the obvious devotion and will of these two cannot compensate. In the past decade, Miss Hepburn has played Rosalind, Portia, Beatrice, and Viola--none with great success. Ryan has done Coriolanus professionally and other roles...
...they cooled and formed microspheres, each of which packaged together a great assortment of proteins and similar chemicals. This process may have been repeated billions of times in different places, generating during each repetition many billions of microspheres. Eventually, one of them happened to have in its membrane the proper chemical wherewithal for a dim sort of life. Once this spark was alight, the great parade of evolution, from bacteria up to man, was a natural consequence...