Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President has begun making some Republican-like speeches around the country, and has shown that he has a powerful weapon in television, it may be hard to sell. But Johnson & Co. frankly admit that the "We Like Ike" line is temporary, and can be switched whenever they think the proper time has come...
...general, Dr. Freeman is as confident as ever that the hotly debated brain operations are right and proper, provided always that the patients are chosen with care. Of 1,019 cases which he has been able to follow for a year or more (up to 15 years), Dr. Freeman rates the result good in almost half...
Eventually, Rosin thinks, the protein problem can be solved by synthesizing amino acids. The human body does not use protein as protein. It breaks it down into amino acids and reassembles them into the specific kinds of protein it needs. So the proper mixture of amino acids will do just as well. "Our grandchildren," says Rosin, "will hardly believe that we were so primitive and barbaric that we had to eat cadavers of dead animals in order to stay alive...
Madeleine is Rickie's wife. She is also a prim and proper neo-Victorian with a habit of regarding duty and pleasure as synonymous. Dinah is an apostle of self-expression, always dressing and undressing her mind to suit the latest intellectual fashion, from Picasso to Kierkegaard. "On visits and at her Bohemian parties, she makes an impression on Rickie. Pretty soon, Rickie's business engagements are mostly monkey business. Torn between his obligations to Madeleine and his two young sons, and the emotional release he feels with Dinah, Rickie's conscience and his stomach both begin...
Save for the fact that his "little mouth protruded like a snout," that his jaw was chinless and that he had almost no neck, Garry Templemore was a fine baby. With proper feeding and education he might have overcome the handicap of having four hands and become, like his father Douglas Templemore, a British newspaperman. But the world was not destined to know. Garry was a mere 24 hours old when his father gave him a lethal shot of strychnine...