Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Citation, but few of them had decorations for individual exploits. Explained a battalion officer: "I'd start to write a man up for the Military Cross and then I'd get to thinking about what the chaps did at the Imjin. It just didn't seem proper...
Washington helped the infant republic with war damage dollars, war surplus, ECA bequests, RFC loans, millions in back pay to Filipino soldiers and guerrillas. Altogether the U.S., in six years, put $2 billion into the Philippines. But the money flowed in without proper planning, or proper safeguards. Instead of going into the mouths or onto the backs of Filipinos, U.S. surplus and relief goods slid from one speculator and profiteer to another. It was a poor trader who could not triple or quadruple his investment in pencils, tractors or derricks...
Lecture at Lunch. In Egypt proper, King Farouk began showing some of the good sense he has been credited with. Back from his spectacular honeymoon, he summoned his ministers to lunch, let them know he wasn't pleased with events. He told Premier Nahas Pasha that if Foreign Minister Salah el Din started making loud speeches at the Paris U.N. meeting, he would recall him. He sarcastically asked his Waidist cabinet members just how they reconciled their party's anti-Communist position with their Foreign Minister's "making Communist propaganda." Moreover, said Farouk, he didn...
...biggest individual triumph belonged to young (30) U.S.-trained, Vienna-seasoned Bass-Baritone George London (TIME, Jan. 9, 1950), making his Met debut as Amonasro. The Herald Tribune's exacting Virgil Thomson reached deep into his accolade box for a proper one, decided that London "took his place among the greatest singing actors we have any of us known or remembered...
Last week Dr. Herbert L. Everett of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station told about a frustrated petunia that remains forever virgin and so goes right on flowering. Dr. Everett crossed two widely different varieties of petunia. One of the offspring was sterile; the flowers had proper female ovules but no fertile male pollen. By crossing and recrossing, Dr. Everett can now make most kinds of petunias sterile. They flaunt their flowers hopefully, inviting bees to visit them. The bees come as usual, but the flowers cannot dust them with fertilizing pollen. So the desperate virgin, to its own frustration...