Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the embarrassed grin of a school boy, Old Soldier Alexander leaped to his feet and clambered clumsily over four other lords to his proper seat. Britain's primate smiled graciously and took his place...
...remember a famous function-the night the headmaster sat in for a sick violinist at the prep school's dance. The Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill, priest of the Protestant Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross, fiddled till midnight so that his boys and their girls could dance to proper music. From the raised band platform he could also keep an eye on student manners. Any Kent boy who departed from propriety got a smart rap with the master's fiddle bow as he danced...
Crackpots hustled in by the dozens to give him the benefit of grandiose schemes for victory. One announced that he was the man solely responsible for the victory of Calvin Coolidge-given proper power, he wanted to do the trick for Ike, too. But most of his ilk were politely turned away by pretty, blonde Sally Pillsbury of the famed flour family, a volunteer worker who toiled at the Eisenhower reception desk. A scourge of drunks arrived too, and were yanked out to fresh air by Chicago policemen...
...London the bloody Ridgway riots that greeted NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway in Paris, failed to take the British character of their countrymen into account. When the Communists tried to spread leaflets, seven were arrested on charges of disorderly behavior and dropping "litter . . . otherwise than in a proper receptacle." Other comrades sneaked up to the U.S. embassy in tree-lined Grosvenor Square and daubed "Yank, Go Home" messages across the windshields of a line of U.S. cars...
...World War II. Such weeklies as Britain's New Statesman and Nation and the New Republic in the U.S., or the left-wing Nation and the stoutly anti-Communist New Leader, have tangled in bitter squabbles (TIME, April 2, 1951 et seq.). The main issue: What is the proper liberal stand in the fight against Communism...