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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atom. Answering pleas by India, Yugoslavia and Russia that the U.S. stop testing nuclear weapons, U.S. Delegate (to the U.N. Disarmament Commission) James J. Wadsworth last week replied that 1) the tests "do not constitute a hazard" when properly conducted; 2) the U.S., in the interests of its own and free world security, will continue the tests until agreement is reached to limit nuclear weapons "under proper safeguards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Diplomats at Work, Jul. 23, 1956 | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

This is not to say that the potentialities of the wide-screen process have not been realized. Each scene is carefully planned so that the lavish palace interiors provide a proper frame for the action, neither intruding with too brilliant colors nor detracting by money-saving shabbiness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The King and I | 7/19/1956 | See Source »

Jordan officials, who inspected a model pit privy set up by ICA, quickly issued a formal request through diplomatic channels, found that ICA was eager to help out. The U.S. developed a plan to furnish three-inch-thick concrete slabs in the proper design. The Jordanians would dig the necessary pits, build optional surrounding structures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Privy Seal | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

Unrestrained Fireball. Shooting it up to the proper height is not much of a problem, but no one knows how its nuclear warhead will behave when it is exploded in the near-vacuum of the upper atmosphere. With little air to resist its expansion, the unrestrained fireball may grow to enormous size. Atomic particles and radiation that are stopped by dense air may be flung far enough to do damage at a considerable distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twenty-Two Miles High | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...short, Miller is a master of high tragedy. He provides, as the ancient Greeks demanded, "a proper purgation through pity and terror." But he defied the Greeks in proving that high tragedy can be achieved by dealing with common people as well as with persons of stature and renown, as in Death of a Salesman and A View...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A View From the Bridge | 7/12/1956 | See Source »

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