Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to return to power. "United we fall," cracked one prominent Laborite. Socialists, tied to a creed outworn, see the Tories successfully administering their welfare state, and the public in no mood for dated dogmas. Gaitskell himself has not caught public fancy. The party has yet to find the proper rocket fuel (o propel it on the second stage to its New Jerusalem. About the only fresh election cry came from Gaitskell. In a land where only one family in three has a car, he won big cheers by offering the campaign slogan: "A car for every British family...
...Accompanied by his Lady (who is a daughter of the late ninth Duke of Devonshire, and showed herself pleasantly old-shoeish), Macmillan neatly dodged political questions, mumbled his way through a string of "Splendids," "Jolly goods," and "God bless you alls." Instead of putting people off, his very proper U-ness was apparently just the thing to put giggling factory girls and suntanned Shropshire lads at their ease. He showed endless interest in everything from a boys' rope-swinging exercise in a Worcester gym class to the manufacture of chains in Walsall...
There is only so much money to go around. Very likely the Administration feels that athletics are already receiving their proper share of University funds. A balance in academic and athletic expenditures must be achieved; and the Administration has (according to its own lights) defined this balance so as to serve the best interests of all concerned...
...before him (TIME, Sept. 8), said Snodgrass, he was given answers in advance, was eventually told when to lose gracefully to Research Consultant Hank Bloomgarden (who went on to win $98,500). An employee of the show, said Snodgrass who refused to identify the culprit, coached him in the proper gestures of hesitation in the isolation booth, paid to have his teeth cleaned for the bright TV lights and later begged him not to squeal...
...school emphasizing de-emphasis of athletics, economy seems a proper treatment for its winning-est team," an undergraduate manager declared to the CRIMSON yesterday. James V. Hoagland '56-4, undergraduate manager of cross country, took issue with statements by Thomas Bolles, Director of Athletics, regarding the H.A.A. sponsored seven-man cross country team which traveled to Cornell on Saturday...