Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Griffiths, who only last fall was acquitted of charges of murdering an African tribesman who had killed his favorite horse (TIME, Dec. 7), based his defense on the notion that leading a "native prisoner" by the ear is "quite proper" and "does not cause pain." But the court was unimpressed. Captain Griffiths was found guilty, cashiered and sentenced to prison for five years...
...Opera faced an exhausting week. It began when the stagehands, who have worked for more than a year without a contract, failed to turn up for a rehearsal of Bellini's Norma. Members of the office staff sweated over heavy props and managed to get some of the proper lights running...
...forced to go hungry much of the time. This explains why, out of 1,000 students, only 32 are of working-class parents." Meanwhile, partly because of lack of funds, 6,600 out of 7,200 Sorbonne law students quit school last year, and because of lack of proper nourishment, the student TB rate (one out of 160) has become the highest in the nation...
...themselves must carry most of the load. But now industry is seeking the country, too, looking for large tracts of open land to build efficient one-story plants. Of 2,658 plants built in the New York area from 1946 to 1951, only 593 went up in the city proper. The great stores, factories, and office buildings are actually changing some suburbs into cities and giving the erstwhile country dwellers a second taste of the city life with all the familiar problems of heavy traffic, congestion, even slums...
...overzealous amateur "untrained in the use of proper investigative techniques, may constitute a serious menace to civil rights . . . . Patriotism and zeal cannot compensate for a lack of detailed, technical knowledge . . . . The work of the vigilante too often deserves the label "Witch Hunt"; the work of the fifth columnist needs no label. Let us beware of both." J. EDGAR HOOVER...