Word: properly
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Jane is still the proper young Englishwoman abroad, but she and Tarzan are naifs in each other's worlds, with resources of strength and feelings still to discover. And with Minnie Driver adroitly mining each nuance of social primness, Jane is the first Disney cartoon heroine to provide her own comic relief...
...after reading about the desensitizing carnage that's in video and computer games and on television and movie screens, and hearing Marilyn Manson labeled the Antichrist of modern music, I'm patiently awaiting an intensive study on the types of poor parenting that leave our children bereft of proper morals. MATTHEW MOORE Bothell, Wash...
...even the noisiest proponents of women's proper place back in the home could seriously suggest today that women should not have the vote. Yet "the mother half of the human family," in Emmeline Pankhurst's phrase, was fully enfranchised only in this century. In Britain, so proud to claim "the Mother of Parliaments," universal suffrage--including women's--was granted only in the year of her death, 1928. Mrs. Pankhurst was born a Victorian Englishwoman, but she shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going...
During the debate of the Living Wage Campaign bill, Bradley L. Davis '00 said the issue "does not belong in this body whose purpose is to represent student concerns.... It is not proper for this body to consider questions of justice...
...seems the pilots are back atop the list of suspects. Sources close to the investigation told USA Today that chief pilot Richard Buschmann and copilot Michael Origel seem to have skipped all or part of their landing "checklist" that airlines use to make sure their pilots follow proper procedure, especially during takeoff and landing. (Buschmann was killed in the accident; Origel survived.) Did the pilots chuck the book when they got a look at the hairy conditions on the ground? Or was it a different sort of foul-up -- the Associated Press has reported that the checklist observed...