Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German danger" today is not that the Germans will dominate or desert the West. The danger is rather that the Germans will not be put into position to do their proper share for the West...
...adoption of a code of ethics, while harmless, will do but little good. Any man who must look up his code of ethics to find out what is proper or improper for him to do is too innocent to be around Washington." As a matter of fact, Sawyer concluded heavily, if Senators really want to study reprehensible practices in Government, they might start in with congressional committees and their questions, which keep Government officials up late of nights, getting the answers together...
...deny that the record compiled is replete with discord and disagreement . . . We will not all be together on those conclusions. We may differ on the proper policy to be applied in the Far East. We may separate on questions of strategy. We may divide on personalities. But we will be ... single-minded in our will to preserve our institutions. We hope they may be preserved in peace, but preserve them we shall. Mistakes may add to the measure of our sacrifices or change the form of the ordeal we may be called upon to endure, but come what may, America...
...Monument of Eternal Liberty. Turks by the thousands marched in the long cortege that followed, and lined the streets with heads bowed in reverence. All of Turkey paused for a moment last week as the long-dead bones of Midhat Pasha were brought home from exile for proper burial in his native land. Said a spectator: "This is a day not for sorrowing, but for rejoicing...
...Have your griddle greased with a slab of bacon rind or some salt pork skin. Heat to the proper temperature to produce the deep orange glow so essential to the seductive pancake...