Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general American attitude that conventional sexual intercourse is the only "proper" expression of sexual desire-and, worse, the legislating of that attitude-is a hangover from the Puritan fathers, from whom so few of us descended. The prudery and naiveté of such an attitude must also make us a laughingstock in nations of more wisdom and maturity...
Glass House. Coordinating the labors of these far-flung agencies and linking them to the U.N. proper is the job of the Secretariat: some 3,100 international civil servants who work in the U.N.'s "glass house," overlooking Manhattan's East River. A shaft of gleaming white marble boxing 5,400 green-tinted windows, the U.N. capitol was built on land that was paid for by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (price: $8,500,000) and furnished with teak from Burma, Jerusalem stone from Israel, carpets from India and Iran, and dramatically barren decoration by the Scandinavians...
Announced Interior Minister Angel Gabriel Borlenghi: "The prelates had erred in assuming that a procession could be held on Saturday after permission had been given for Corpus Christi Day proper." On Saturday, the Peronista press and radio announced that the ceremonies had been called off. The government drastically slowed down service on streetcar, bus and subway lines leading toward the Plaza de Mayo, but the Catholics came anyway, some of them walking miles from their homes in the suburbs...
Three's a Crowd. During the next 20 years, Caesar climbed nimbly up the Roman ladder of state offices-quaestor, aedile, praetor, consul. He became a proper pol. He curried favor with Crassus, the richest man in Rome, and married off his daughter to Pompey, the most powerful...
Taylor does express serious doubts as to whether the McCarthy committee met the test of proper authority when Furry testified before it; he finds a possible moral justification for Furry's action in the procedural elements of the case, if not in the generalized claim of individual conscience that Barth is willing to allow...