Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President has worked harder than Dwight Eisenhower to maintain friendly and constitutionally proper relationships with Congress. But last week, in the sharpest words he has yet addressed toward Capitol Hill, the President showed that his cooperative attitude does not extend to letting the legislative branch take over the functions of the executive...
...House shouted through a resolution asking the President to "take all necessary and proper steps to bring about an invitation to Spain to become a party to the North Atlantic Treaty and a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...Individual errors in judgment, lack of proper coordination, ineffective administrative procedures, inconsistent application of investigating regulations, and excessive delays," were the subcommittee's words for it. Army Secretary Robert Ten Broeck Stevens (or his Defense Department superiors), said the report, should be "criticized for the delay of almost one year before the facts concerning the Peress case were publicly released." It added that former Army Counselor John Adams showed "disrespect for this subcommittee" when he chose to disregard a request from Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy that Peress' discharge be held up. Then the subcommittee listed...
...four delegations) and observers (some 1,400 newsmen) lay the great waiting public itself, which had alternately had its hopes raised and its expectations dashed by statesmen who sometimes acted as if the public, left to its native good sense, could not be trusted to achieve the proper expression of mixed skepticism and hope. But the public was the Big Fifth at Geneva. In the preconference remarks of both the U.S.'s Eisenhower and Russia's Bulganin was an implied acknowledgment that the public expected and demanded something of them...
...ancient Roman Gate of Pinciana. Its wide sidewalks are speckled with bright umbrellas and gay, colored tables. Its curbs are flanked by fashionable hotels and shops. Rome's American colony calls it "The Beach." An exhausted tourist, slumping into one of the comfortable chairs in mid-afternoon when proper Romans are enjoying a siesta, sees nothing but empty tables or exhausted fellow tourists. But just before lunch, in the late afternoon, or from 10 at night until early morning, the Via Veneto becomes a lively circus of Rome's most colorful characters, and a gawker's delight...