Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument about whether the U.S. can cooperate with Chiang Kaishek. Chiang said last week that he would be willing to see General MacArthur assume responsibility for the integrity of Formosa. If the U.S. through MacArthur did assume responsibility, such questions as Chiang's personality would recede into proper perspective. Formosa could then be weighed in terms of future peril to the free world rather than in terms of past U.S. and Chinese mistakes. So weighed, Formosa could and would be defended...
...basis of comparable figures for the V2, the Viking might have taken the bomb to a target more than 200 miles away. If the Norton Sound were stationed at the proper point off the U.S. East Coast, Vikings could hit either New York, Philadelphia or Washington, or all three...
...another round of raspberries. This time, before he reached the dugout, he replied with a gesture from the international sign language of obscenity which Boston sport-writers primly described as a "vulgar motion." Then, while waiting his turn at bat, Ted added one more gesture that even the most proper Bostonians were sure to grasp: he turned and spat disgustedly in the direction of the grandstand...
...their mother's 20th birthday, they were taken home to the simple Townsend cottage in Tofield. Soon they went back to the Hospital for careful study, because their parents had agreed with Dr. Freebury that they should be separated. Said Elizabeth Townsend: "They would have no decent, proper lives the way they are. It is better to accept what risks there are in the operation...
...down she continued to kiss the air with her lips . . ." Browning died in Venice, 28 years later, but he was not buried in Florence beside Elizabeth as he had always hoped. Westminster Abbey offered a burial in the Poets' Corner, and Browning's son thought it proper to accept...