Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under George Abbott's direction, there is a constant sense of zip, an occasional effect of explosion. There is plainly a belief that all music aspires toward a brass band's exuberance, all locomotion toward a fire engine's clanging speed. And there is a very proper belief that one Gwen Verdon is the equal of a hand-picked chorus line, a spotlighted siren, a surefire comic, and a sought-after premiére danseuse...
...demonstrated that three women could stand in for four men on most jobs. In the Far-East, Air General George Stratemeyer was so pleased with the work of the WACs that he authorized them to wear flowers in their hair-much to the distress of the militarily proper WAC officers...
...cold war, the ideal of absolute liberty must inevitably yield to paramount considerations of national security in a number of sensitive areas of American life. A sense of proper balance between the claims of liberty and the demands of security is especially important in the government's relations with the press and other media of communication. For the public's natural desire for information presents an obvious challenge to government officials with their natural fear that vital national secrets may be delivered unknowingly into the hands of a potential enemy...
...language department would probably raise two objections to my suggestion that there be a more even balance between reading and speaking. One, that classes are too large to allow proper oral training. If this is so, then I say cut down the size of the classes and get more teachers. These teachers should be of the caliber proposed in your editorial...
...contrast to his vigorous stand on the Bricker Amendment has been the President's attitude toward many of the planks of his own legislative program. Too often his proposals have been endangered by his failure to exercise proper leadership. His willingness to make unnecessary concessions to protectionist minority groups like the watch industry weakened his position on his foreign trade bill. By his eagerness to delegate authority, Eisenhower has created a vacuum of leadership in which major decisions like issuance of the Yalta papers have been made evidently without his knowledge. His toleration of censorship in the selection of books...