Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote, but never had such an important treaty slipped by with so little notice. Hastily, the Senate asked the President to return the treaty "for reconsideration." This time, the quorum bells would be sounded, the roll formally called, and the approval of Greece and Turkey in NATO recorded with proper ceremony...
Knox has not reached his proper place in his church. Not everybody appreciates his humor.-There are some who agree with Dr. Johnson that "This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive." Yet there have been witty cardinals before now. Knox would not want to be a cardinal, but it would please many beyond his own communion if he became one. Waugh has compared his career to Newman's, but Newman wanted recognition; Knox does not. Nor was Newman a humorist...
...hopes for a revitalized school do not mean simply a 'patching up' process, O'Brian stated. "Quite the contrary, the commission argued a strong case for a 'radically enlarged and improved' institution which could take its proper place as 'one of the world's leading University schools of religion...
Nell did not mind the inconvenience. She was one of the best-natured girls who ever took a king's mind off his country. In fact, she was such a trouble-to-nobody sort that posterity-even the proper Victorians-has been as uncensorious as the queen; "sweet Nell of Old Drury" has almost been sentimentalized into a saint of strumpetry. It may come as something of a surprise to readers of Author John H. Wilson's brisk but scholarly biography that on contemporary testimony the true, unsanctified Nell was also "wanton, brazen, debauched and humorous ... a bold...
Some Muscovites decided that there was inspiration in his cabalistic utterances, e.g., that the universe is governed by "the law of three and the law of seven," and that the proper source of sexual energy is "Hydrogen 12." Gurdjieff picked up followers, funds, and his chief disciple, a stocky journalist and mathematician named P. D. Ouspensky. The Russian Revolution soon sent Gurdjieff and Ouspensky scurrying. Near Paris, at a Fontainebleau estate, Gurdjieff founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. Ouspensky ended up in London and established the Gurdjieff Institute. It was this "ark" that Author Walker helped...