Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well, even Churchill could never learn the proper use of jargon. When he took over in 1940, he had every opportunity to tell the British people that "dispatches from the zone of hostilities indicate that the military situation on the Continent has deteriorated to an alarming extent." He muffed it, of course, with "The news from France is very...
...private citizen may get away with condoning and encouraging a crime, but a private citizen has neither the status nor the responsibility of a lawmaker. As a legislator, Mr. Bond should be aware of the proper methods for amending both law and government policy. The Georgia house had damned good cause to bar him. TED KAPLAN '65 J. RICHARD MARGULIES '67 Cornell University Ithaca...
...yeoman performance, vital as it was, did nothing to cool the tempers of the striking longshoremen. At issue were 288 jobs at the U.S. port facility named Newport, being built four miles up the Saigon River to handle military shipments and relieve the choking congestion of Saigon port proper. From the beginning, Newport was planned as a wholly U.S.-operated military port, with American soldiers of the 71st Transportation Battalion doing the stevedoring and all the other work. The idea was to minimize pilferage, the chances of sabotage, and the risk of U.S. military equipment's falling into enemy...
Disillusioned Fabian. Extremists like Muggeridge are usually in revolt against a conservative, straitlaced childhood. But Muggeridge rebelled against a conventional left-wing upbringing. His father was a Fabian Socialist; his mother was a proper working-class girl. He married Kitty Dobbs, niece of Fabian Founder Beatrice Webb. When he journeyed to India to teach English, he urged his students to rebel against British rule...
What do Archibald Lee Wright, Walker Smith, Rocco Francis Marchegiano, Arnold Raymond Cream, Joseph Louis Barrow and Carmine Tilelli have in common with Cassius Marcellus Clay? They all were boxing champions who preferred to be known by their aliases* rather than by their proper names. The resemblance ends in the general vicinity of the mouth...