Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the presidential plane, Columbine III, droned into the airstrip at Lowry Air Force Base with Defense Secretary Charles Wilson (see below), Admiral Arthur Radford and Milton Eisenhower, the President's brother. On the way to the hospital, Press Secretary James Hagerty briefed Wilson and Radford on proper bedside manners. Yes, it was perfectly all right to shake hands with the President. They should try to sit at the foot of the bed so that Ike could see them without moving his body. Their meeting should last no longer than 25 minutes, even though the President, as usual...
...press headlined reports filed by two War Department staff officers who discussed Pacific strategy with MacArthur in the Philippines in February 1945. Both reported that he considered a Soviet attack against the Japanese forces in Manchuria "essential." One said: "He emphatically stated that we must not invade Japan proper unless the Russian army is previously committed to action in Manchuria." The other quoted him as saying, "We should make every effort to get Russia into the Japanese war." The talks had no effect on Yalta, because the Yalta conference was already over...
...less than a century, the hasty funeral jobber became something like a theatrical producer, and with proper pride he set about rouging away his social stigma He changed his title from "undertaker" "mortician" and later to "funeral director." The "curbstone undertakers" were curbed by their colleagues, and sanitary standards were generally set up before the law got around to it. In some states it now takes three years-two in college and one in a school of "mortuary science''-to get an undertaker's diploma...
Acidulous Society Author Cleveland (The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts) Amory, 38, scudded into Manhattan after a voyage from England, licking psychic wounds that he picked up in a five-month running battle of wills with the redoubtable Duchess of Windsor. Hostilities loomed the very moment the duchess hired Amory to carry on the ghosting of her autobiography, a meandering treatise on which three years had already been spent. Amory summed...
...meet with Dean Bundy today to re-open the parietal rules issue. By a 7 to 5 vote, the Council had decided to "accept the petition as a valid manifestation of student sentiment" and "to endorse the petition and accept the responsibility for presenting it to the proper authorities...