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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civil control, and won it over in the end with honesty -and his dogged hope of victory. He did not underestimate his army. Revolutionary soldiers might desert, but they often returned to fight again. They might break before British bayonets, but they would regroup and fight the next day. Properly led, they endured incredible hardship, often without pay, without proper clothing, without proper food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: A Man to Remember | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...make available . . . The people should have the freedom to read and consider a broader range of ideas than those that may be held by any single librarian or publisher or government or church. It is wrong that what one man can read should be confined to what another thinks proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Freedom to Read | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

FCDA is correct in saying that its shelters will protect some people, who happen to live in wooden houses at the proper distance from an explosion that does not set the houses on fire or spray them with radioactivity. Not all atom bombs will conform to such conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Operation Doorway | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...would go back. Joined by strikers from a rope plant and tractor factory, they marched around the mill demanding lower production norms and a 40% cut in prices, shouted for overthrow of the Communist regime, tore down Communist posters, ripped party pins off Communist lapels. They marched on Brandenburg proper, stormed the city prison and freed political prisoners. They spotted the district attorney, seized him, handcuffed him, threw him atop a police car and beat him to death. A "people's judge," found cowering in the courthouse, was mauled, had one of his ears ripped off before a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Revolt in the Land | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...powerful drugs by warnings of their dangers or reports of occasional deaths, said the New England Journal of Medicine: "To withhold or ban most such drugs would reverse medical progress and lead to the death of many patients who might have been saved by the proper use of the drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

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