Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saved!" shouted Joan Kennedy at the press conference. "I have a feeling I came at the right time," said Indiana's Democratic Senator Birch Bayh, who turned up at just the proper moment to rescue her from a tricky question about the Pans peace talks. Joan was in Hoosier land campaigning for Bayh's reelection, reminding her audiences that it was he who had risked his life to pull her husband Teddy out of the wreckage in that near-fatal light-plane crash near Springfield, Mass., tour years ago. At one rally she let her listeners...
...Disciples' annual convention, 4,700 delegates overwhelmingly approved the principles of a new constitution that will transform the movement from a loose grouping of autonomous congregations into an organization with central direction and authority. The change was symbolized by dropping two letters from the Disciples' proper name. Previously, they were members of the Christian Churches; now they will be known as the Christian Church...
...author's daring life and her works. It began by accepting her early writing as the creation of a country parson, and it ended by making her one of the richest and most honored women writers in his tory. For much of the period in between, however, no proper Victorian family would have her to dinner...
Wisely, Author Haight contents himself with chronicling his heroine's dazzling success in her own time. By the 1860s, the lady whom George Eliot unkindly referred to as "our little humbug of a Queen" was reading her books aloud to Prince Albert. Proper people were inviting her to dinners (she often declined). World rights to her books had brought in ?41,000, in buying power the Victorian equivalent of a cool million dollars. After Dickens' death in 1870, she was revered, quite simply, as the greatest novelist alive...
Applications for tickets to the Dart-mouth football game will be available this week from athletic secretaries in the Houses and, for freshmen, in the Union. Fill out coupons completely, including return address, and drop in proper class box outside Department of Athletics, 60 Boylston St., before 5 p.m. Monday...