Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming war or the coming depression. Moderation was the rule. In Chicago, City Park Superintendent Walter Wright announced that police would not use tape measures this summer to check on indecent exposure at the city's bathing beaches, but would limit themselves to reasonable judgment of what is proper. Said Wright: "People are not going to the extremes they used...
...produced some ugly effects in the U.S., the most conspicuous being the emotions roused pro and con a weightless opportunist named Joe McCarthy. Now McCarthy had receded to a mere smudge on the political landscape. His decline is part of the restoration of the U.S. picture to its proper perspective...
...critically important in mid-1955 to have the U.S. picture in proper focus. As the Parley at the Summit approaches, the Eisenhower Administration reaches a mile stone. What his Administration has and has not done-both domestically and in foreign relations-will determine what the U.S. and the free world achieve at Geneva...
...must watch its national budget, keep a check on inflation, remove restrictions against international trade and currency exchange. Said Auboin: "There is no reason for complacency." Prosperity "will remain precariously based until the principal currencies of the world are again quoted at a single realistic rate of exchange under proper market conditions...
...prey in a proper state of torpor, the caterpillar-hunting wasp sometimes shoots the caterpillar 13 times, once for each segment. That deadeyed Annie Oakley, the beetle hunter, can bowl over her hard-shelled victims with a saddle shot that pierces a tiny chink in the beetle's armor and penetrates precisely to its central nerve-control station. One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world. Ducking away from the praying mantis' gaping arms, she zooms back and forth like a pendulum behind the giant...