Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like soldiers everywhere, Communist Czechoslovakia's troops enjoy getting letters from their girls.* Last week Czechoslovakia's Military Enlightenment Officer attempted to take all the joy out of mail call. "The stuff you used to write your girls," he told the soldiers, "is not proper for a member of the people's democratic army." Instead of "vain talk of love," he continued, "you must tell your girls about the experience of being built into new human beings for service in a new and stronger people's army. Tell them to write you about their experiences...
Shoes for Grandfather. Gugel surveyed his accomplishment with customary aplomb. If the results were too lurid, they might be softened, he thought, by proper illumination, say red and blue light bulbs...
...spirited representation of a rat eating radioactive cheese. Mrs. Davial, it was noted in the program, had "recently returned from a trip to Tibet" and hence presumably had a nice understanding of these things. A small boy named Bunny May was on hand to guide recalcitrant atoms into their proper places...
...week's end, Romance Road seemed to have hit a block. The dean's office was noticeably cool to the idea, with or without proper lighting. That seemed to leave matters safely on the old traditional basis...
...mankind and the dreariness of existence. he barges into the home of the Mayer of Cool Clary one April afternoon, and asks to be hanged. This unprecedented request is ignored by the mayor, whose credo throughout the entire play is "everything will be taken case of at the proper time...