Word: properly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Voting has also been streamlined to eliminate a senatorial courtesy favoring members absent from Washington by postponing roll calls until their return. Henceforth, votes will be scheduled in their proper order during the regular five-day week...
Make-Believe Alexander Pope must have been wrong, poor chap. The proper study of mankind is not man, but-in current fiction, at any rate-his phallus. Novelists are exploring ever more intimately, not to say enviously, the wondrous achievements of recognized bedroom supermen. In fact, everyone-heroes, authors, readers-seems to be getting rather exhausted. Perhaps that is why so many novels this season deal with sex in its most mechanized and dehumanized form. The dildo is the feature; everybody, apparently, uses an artificial penis, or else needs one badly...
...afford aggrieved persons ample opportunity to bring complaints to the proper university authorities," the statement reads," and "we have adequate procedures to deal justly with such complaints...
...basic irony that the balance of terror between nuclear powers, which has helped to prevent a global conflict, has also hampered peaceful diplomacy. For the ability to exercise military force is the ultimate threat behind all international arguments. Yet the patent and proper reluctance of big powers to resort to their biggest weapons gives smaller states an opportunity for mischief and arrogance. The difficulty of reacting without overreacting sets a definite limit on power. Thus Castro feels free to talk tough with Russia; the Rhodesians thumb their noses at the British; little Cambodia dares the wrath of Red China...
Time was when owning a houseboat was considered downright lubberly. Proper yachtsmen snickered whenever one tied up at the dock, and out on the water skippers of fast-moving cruisers delighted in leaving the lumbering arks pitching and wallowing in their wake. Not any longer. There is a new kind of hot houseboat that comes with a deep V hull and powerful twin in-board-outdrive engines, and can plane at speeds of 30 m.p.h. or more, as fast as conventional cruisers costing twice as much. With prices beginning as low as $9,000, houseboats are gaining converts faster than...