Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...query asked for a reporter to go along on the hike. Said Bookman, who had just finished a 60-page file on an economic story: "For some antic reason my pulse quickened." He asked for the assignment. Bureau Chief Jim Shepley agreed, and off rushed Bookman to buy the proper equipment (including long underwear, a sleeping bag, air mattress and first...
...that they bought the stock for $20 million, but New York Central President William White charges that they are not the real owners, says they put up no money of their own. As a result, the Central this week refused to transfer the stock until it got the "proper papers...
...that comprise the "People's Police." (About one in three of the Red "policemen" has deserted or has been purged since the June 17 riots, according to West German sources.) Last week, for the first time, the Communists called the so-called police by their proper name: the East German Streitkrafte (fighting forces). Diplomatically, the Kremlin hoped for even greater gains. A "sovereign" East Germany could plausibly be a step toward the gargantuan pan-European security pact that Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov proposed at the Berlin Conference as a Red alternative to NATO (TIME, Feb. 22). It might also...
...those in the same entry. Although it is definitely unfriendly in this sense, it is perhaps more friendly than any other house in another sense. In general, Eliot friendships, once made, are not artificial. One is a friend not in the sense that he lives upstairs and "it's proper to say hello to him." Eliot men, on the whole, are friends with only those in whom they have a genuine interest--both in agreeing with and disagreeing with them...
When an airplane makes its approach, the pilot sees a spot of white light reflected in the mirror. If it appears to be above the line of colored lights, he knows that his airplane is above the proper landing path. If it appears to be below, he is lower than he should be. He corrects his approach so that the reflected spot is in line with the colored lights. Then he knows he is right...