Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader and his lesser lions must be ready for opposition from two species of benighted sheep-anti-Peronistas and independents. The proper way to deal with the anti-Peronistas is to "hit them" occasionally but not too often-"if you hit them every day, in the end they won't feel the blows any more." As for independents, "they are like the stool of the dove that smells neither bad nor good. Some leaders have lost what they had in an attempt to win independent opinion. Independents must be left alone-they cannot be led. They are the savages...
...major change--more than the petty dabbling done so far. The only sure protection is to abolish the Department as it is now and transfer its functions to a small group of men of known loyalty. Fortunately the State Department lends itself to such improvement. Its only proper functions, making policy and telegraphing orders out to foreign governments, could be better performed by a small council anyway...
Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, would not comment of the story however. "We will announce the 1954 schedule at the proper time," he said. "That is next fall...
...Flares. Over tilled hill and manicured dale they bounded with tally-hos, yoicks and view halloos, making life miserable not only for the fox, but for stolid farmers and their livestock. It was not long before, in the words of one who was there, "the locals were raising a proper bloody ruckus." For one thing, such goings-on were not cricket in the eyes of Lower Saxony farmers, whose own system of hunting is to grub about on foot with small whistles that imitate the cries of a rabbit, and then to pounce on the fox. They appealed to Herr...
...place of the artist . . . To make rude remarks about movies you do not like is an American privilege. But to suppress them ... is not such a privilege, and it is not good sense . . . Charles Chaplin's political activities, if any, can be dealt with at the proper place and time, but to drag his movie into the indictment is oppressive and ill-advised...