Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunted bustards with jeep-mounted .50s and .45s . . . None of us ever saw them fly. They walk or run their 20 or 30 miles daily to a water hole. When cornered, they courageously face away from you, elevate their posteriors to the proper altitude, and zero in ... To us Desert Rats, they were known by a name other than, but somewhat similar to, bustard...
...country but be subsidizes them. This is what is happening today. Trustees who as citizens are fighting socialism, nevertheless are responsible for proceeding thousands of undergraduates who--let me be the first to admit--are not leaving Yale and Socialists, but are leaving Yale without first a proper understanding of the benefits of free enterprise, and secondly and especially without having been taught the educational and moral necessity of adhering to certain basic American principles...
SLATER: So the university's alternative, as you see it, so to go to the alumni? Now tell me this, Bill, what have you observed is the attitude of the graduates in regard to a university's failure to guide students towards what the alumni consider proper goals? Is this reflected in their contributions to Yale...
...Americans; seven of the Cambridge, and at least three of the Oxford side being Harvard men. Playing for Oxford was George Monroe, formerly a professional basketball player for Boston Celtics. Over half the crowd were American, and they soon had the others taking part in the heckling in the proper manner. Cambridge scored first, but they were soon overtaken by Oxford, who held their lead...
...ominous year 1861. Convinced that "biography is not instruction or teaching-but is just a story that happens to be true," Lewis has taken much of the stiffness and the stuffiness out of the Grant legend, and relegated the gossip about his minor vices to their proper place...