Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington newspaperman that Harry Truman was for Brown because of Thurmond's 1948 disloyalty to the party (TIME, Nov. i). The vote: Thurmond 139,106, Brown 80,956. After the count, Senator-elect Thurmond renewed a promise: he will resign in 1956 to meet all comers in a proper primary...
...earth has "boils" that form in its rocky flesh, rise toward its skin, and sometimes break through. Proper appreciation of these ailments, said Geologist C. Wroe Wolfe of Boston University last week, should lead to the discovery of valuable ore deposits...
...that requires delicately simple treatment. As a play enfolded in music, it could be both piquant and touching. As a grandiose spectacle-with undersea ballets, waterfront fandangos and full-rigged ships crossing the stage -the story becomes both sluggish and slapdash. The heaping portion has been substituted for the proper food...
...Robert Oppenheimer was fired because he did not show the proper enthusiasm towards a project with which he disagreed; John Davies has been dismissed for guessing right about an event which many people in Washington would like to think has never happened. The effect of these cases on the generation now in the nation's universities is a foregone conclusion: at a time when the need for capable experts is greater than ever, few undergraduates even consider the Government as a career. If such senselessness continues, the result will be a Foreign Service of trained seals--and this...
...retiring to a Connecticut farm, where living was cheap. There he could fish for his dinner, and count on a small income from his crops. Later on, his pictures began to sell a little, but rural seclusion remained Dove's choice. Landscape, he had decided, was the proper subject of his art. With pantheistic fervor he poured his feelings about nature into half-recognizable abstractions, trying always to dissolve what he saw into what he felt. Pure feeling was the gold Dove sought to distill from the dross of his materials...