Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world conference on disarmament that will emphasize the emotional Communist campaign to ban atomic weapons and "foreign military bases," and de-emphasize the cooler Western insistence on the need for proper safeguards and controls...
...hopeful that they will do so." Coolly, the President answered a question about his surprise proclamation of martial law during last month's civil-defense test. He had taken no advance briefing on the test problems he was to face-"because . . . decisions should be made in the proper atmosphere of urgency ... I was suddenly told that 53 of the major cities of the U.S. had either been destroyed or so badly damaged that the populations were fleeing . . . There was. as I saw it, no recourse except to take charge instantly." The President, an old hand in giving realism...
Last week Tony stood once more on the center court of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, tuned up at last to the proper pitch for the Wimbledon championship. He had wasted no time getting to the final round, blasting his way past such dangerous competitors as last year's champ, Czechoslovakia's aging (33) Expatriate Jaroslav Drobny, and the U.S.'s Parisian Playboy Budge Patty. Across the net stood Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, an unseeded surprise who had knocked over Ken Rosewall and Italy's Nicolo Pietrangeli to get to the finals...
Wide Kick. Once before, in 1953, Nielsen had got that far. On the way his temperamental outbursts had annoyed the proper English crowd. Now all was forgiven. In Wimbledon's crammed stadium (17,000 spectators) the crowd, always partial to the underdog, made the Dane a solid favorite...
...grandson Anthony Glyn (nom de plume for Sir Geoffrey Davson, Baronet) makes plain in his slightly pious but consistently entertaining biography, the woman behind the legend was no pan-therish love goddess but a proper Victorian who put little sex into her books and found no satisfying love in her life...