Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose in setting up a time requirement was to see that people were exposed to the language for what we felt to be a proper length of time," Elder said, "and not to force them to continue drearily...
...seems that in the old days a man could go pretty much in any direction he wanted, and nobody cared very much. And then the powers decided that there certainly was a proper way to do things at Harvard and so they put up big signs which said...
...campaign. Actually, any debt that Ike owed Warren could have been paid by a third-class postmastership. At the G.O.P. convention in Chicago last year, Warren's California delegates did cast their votes for the Eisenhower side in the battle of the contested delegations, but that was the proper strategy for Candidate Warren, who was then hoping for a deadlock. When the balloting for President came, California voted for Warren and never switched. In the campaign, Warren made only late, routine efforts for Ike, and he conspicuously snubbed his fellow Californian, Richard Nixon. Some Administration bigwigs were disappointed that...
...should not be ignored. It may be merely waiting, some subtle device in its innards measuring off the seconds before it explodes. The enemy could drop a few such dangerous sleepers into rivers or harbors just to make sure that dummies dropped later would be treated with proper respect...
...whose emotions are under the complete control of the intellect. Meredith, more akin to Shaw than to Dickens and Trollope, became an intellectual comedian whose life was one long perpetration of jokes against his haughty self. His Ordeal of Richard Feverel sardonically recounted the misadventures of a proper Victorian young gentleman brought up in almost complete ignorance of sex. The hero of The Egoist was a young baronet of such absurd self-love that he delayed his marriage (and lost the girl) worrying that she might remarry if he died first...