Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russell Jr., who was nicknamed "Bubba," and, 18 months later, a girl whom they named Kathy. Russ began training them to swim before they could walk. He sprinkled water in their faces from the time of their first baths, turned showers on them at six months to teach them proper aquatic breathing. Kathy swam 20 feet under water when she was only ten months old. At 17 months the Tongay children paddled a quarter of a mile a day; at two years each did five miles...
...this kind of verbal pass, piropo, is said to come from the Greek pyropos, meaning burning face. Fashioning the piropo used to be one of the pleasantest professions of Latin America, and nowhere was it practiced more artistically than in Maracaibo, a city rich with oil and romance. A proper piropo, while flowery and fresh, was never offensive, e.g.: "Ah, to be the hand which powders that cheek!" But the worldwide lapse of good manners in the 20th century made the piropo bolder: "Say, baby, I'll be a citizen of your republic if you'll guarantee...
...oxygen chamber, where it flowed over a set of metal grids like the plates in a storage battery. Electronic controls kept the flow rate just right, made sure that oxygen was added and carbon dioxide taken away. in exact amounts, and even kept the blood at the proper degree of acidity. A third pump sent the refreshed blood back into an artery above the left side of Cecelia's heart...
...considerate care. ¶ The story of a young mother with a triple personality. Drs. Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley of Augusta, Ga. told of a patient whom they called Eve White who had a second personality, "Eve Black," and a third known simply as "Jane." Prim and proper Eve White seemed to be unaware of the existence of Eve Black, but in the Eve Black phase she became coquettish and informal to the point of recklessness. Moreover, Eve in the third person. Sample quote: "When Black knew Eve White, and spoke...
Said the broadcast: ". . . To all brave pilots who wish to free themselves from the Communist yoke and start a new, better life with proper honor . . . you are guaranteed refuge, protection, human care and attention. If pilots so desire, their names will be kept secret forever . . ." Escaping pilots were told to fly at 20,000 feet to Paengnyong Island off Korea's west coast, lower their wheels, waggle their wings. U.N. pilots, they were promised, would escort them to Kimpo Airfield, near Seoul...