Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, invited to address the meeting, entered Washington's National Guard Armory almost unheralded to face the delegates with his answer. Government, said he, has a proper duty to take steps to help special groups that have suffered economically, and such help is given in housing, urban renewal, farm support programs, rural electrification and other ways. But "the effort here is not to give one group of citizens special privilege or undeserved advantage. Rather it is to see that equality of opportunity is not withheld from the citizen...
...everyone gets the best seat in the house," says Conductor Erich Leinsdorf. "That is proper for a democracy, is it not?" The "best seat" is a living room sofa facing a wall equipped with two speakers six to eight feet apart. If listener and speakers are positioned correctly, there seems to issue from the wall a wave of what is known as stereophonic sound. Nothing has so excited listeners and record makers since, more than a decade ago, the long-playing disk ushered in the Age of High Fidelity. Stereophony's extra clarity and depth have...
...thing the Swiss have invented is the cuckoo clock." This gibe was not even correct: a German in the Black Forest invented the cuckoo clock. But it barely ruffled the Swiss, who often appear to think that they, not the Greeks, invented democracy, and that only they understand its proper practice. The cardinal rule of Switzerland's unwritten democratic law is that only men shall vote. In the rest of Europe, only tiny Liechtenstein and Monaco also deny the ballot to women...
...table. He can tell whether the player hits a backhand or a forehand, whether the stroke is a drive or a chop. He is unbothered by slight deafness in one ear, and his only problem is judging the service in doubles, where the ball must land on the proper side of the white line ("So far, I've never called one wrong"). Listening peacefully behind his dark glasses, Referee Medick is table tennis' most relaxed fan. "I don't get crosseyed following the ball," he says, "and I never get a stiff neck...
From such figures, many economists conclude that the uproar about inflation is overdone. Says a top Administration economist: "The school that says that any degree of price increase at all is sinful and wicked per se is being dogmatic and doctrinaire. Relative stability is the proper goal, and you must have the adjective with the noun...