Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Watkins committee this was the worst kind of abuse: "Any Senator has the right to question . . . or condemn an official action of the body of which he is a member, or of the constituent committees which are working arms of the Senate, in proper language. But he has no right to impugn the motives of individual Senators responsible for official action, nor to reflect upon their personal character for what official action they took. If the rules and procedures were otherwise, no Senator could have freedom of action to perform his assigned committee duties. If a Senator must first give...
Pointedly noting that men who conduct congressional investigations are expected to "maintain high standards of fair and respectful treatment," the Watkins committee contrasted this principle with the McCarthy practice: "The conduct of Senator McCarthy toward General Zwicker was not proper. We do not think that this conduct would have been proper in the case of any witness, whether a general or a private citizen, testifying in a similar situation. Senator McCarthy knew . . . that General Zwicker had been directed by higher authority to issue an honorable discharge to Peress upon his application...
...Heron is doing a specific and limited experiment, and he does not intend to speculate. But it has occurred to many observers that his technique of confusing and dimming the brain by starving it of sensation might be used, with proper modification, for darker purposes. It might explain the Communists' success in getting untrue but apparently willing "confessions" out of prisoners led into a courtroom right out of isolated cells...
Herr Oskar Altmann, a stiff-backed Prussian of the old school, and his wife were prim and proper Berliners who suffered privation in silence but protested peevishly against such innovations as lipstick and slacks, which they thought "incorrect." Elder son Kurt was dead or a prisoner in Russia; Fritz, the younger boy, was a good-for-nothing young Nazi who had once betrayed his parents to the Gestapo and who soon would betray them again. Author Faviell's favorites were the two Altmann girls, as different as flesh and fire. Ursula, the pretty one, had been raped...
...essence, according to Sawyer, the report charges that proper procedural safeguards were not followed in the Temple dismissal of Dunham. The Civil Liberties Union found, said Sawyer, that "Dunham had been dismissed on one charge in fact, but nominally on another...