Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was wrong with the Italians? "They wave their 'ands when they talk," groused one Englishman. "They wink at the women and shampoo their 'air." Worst of all, said a squat Yorkshire digger, "They 'aven't larnt to talk English proper." Back of this pettiness was an unreasoning fear of unemployment that discourages hard work in all of Britain's heavy industries. Haunted by depression memories of dole and idleness and "bread and drip" (a diet of bread spread with cooking grease), British coal miners expect to safeguard their now-well-paid jobs by keeping...
...hundred thousand dollars is the figure net by the College for an enclosed rink, $500,000 for construction and the rest for a modest endowment. The rink will be within Soldiers Field. Bright feels that the figures are proper for the situation. The ides of an outdoor rink like that of Andover has been rejected because of the lack of good ice weather (only 60 days last winter at Andover), injuries on bad ice, and the extra cost of maintenance of an outdoor rink...
...opposes a law which puts "Washington bureaucracy" into education, because "education is one of those local functions that we should guard jealously . . . [But] I think that there is a certain level of education that is absolutely necessary . . . When we can show when any particular section does not have the proper, adequate means to educate its children to that level, I would certainly be in favor of help to that specific area...
Last week Keef saw Truman and then told reporters that the President was neutral. He did not complain that Truman should support him because there were more delegates in the Kefauver column than any other. Said Kefauver: "I think that [neutrality] is the proper attitude for him to take...
...Greeks had a word for it: "hysterics." They got the word from hystera, meaning womb, and they thought the trouble began when the womb strayed from its proper place. Naturally, they did not see how a man could have hysterics. Not until 2,000 years after Hippocrates did physicians suggest that hysteria (as the disorder came to be known) could occur in men, and even then they admitted it was rare. Now three psychiatrists who worked together in Boston have come to the conclusion that the Greeks were right the first time: what passes for hysteria...