Word: properly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your story . . . has satiated me with a kind of revulsion for certain aspects of our system of political representation, hardly proper in a people respectful of its governmental institutions...
...police president of Munich, Ernst Pöhner, by proper exercise of the legal powers vested in him, might have halted the back-alley rowdyisms of Hitler and his followers...
...caught in a conspiracy with foreign powers. The interval between this announcement and complete Communist victory took seven months in Rumania, five in Hungary, four in Bulgaria. In Czechoslovakia, after a clever build-up (TIME, March 1) which forced the resignation of twelve anti-Communist cabinet members, the crisis proper took only a week...
TIME, on the edge of this whirlpool, rashly promised its readers to tell what the news meant, to get it all into proper perspective. Even more rashly, it asked to be judged not by how much information it got between its covers, but by how much it got off its pages into the minds of its readers...
...member of the Consulate staff, recently back in this country . . . told me the situation was even worse than when I was there, and that those in American business firms and other concerns are all typing to get Hong Kong assignments, "it being so awful in any spot in China proper...