Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giving up. Such perseverence was not necessary. On the 299th try they found an ailing spore that needed only vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine) to make it grow lustily. When it had mated with a normal mold, it transmitted its need for vitamin B-6 to its descendants in the proper Mendelian manner for a single mutated gene...
...rather than motor to Mexico with his mother, Vag did not realize the import of his choice. Now he was in the middle of a world he could not come to terms with--a world far distant from the sedate evenings spent with a cribbage board that sparked his proper life...
...force orders draw cries of protest from social scientists. They point to increasing arrest rates in the 14 heavily policed high-hazard slum areas, where social agencies thought they had made headway with a gentler approach toward juveniles. And they vehemently disapprove of Kennedy's decision on the proper function of the police department's Juvenile Aid Bureau...
...gentle police approach was gone; "headbeaters" (cops) were on watch everywhere. And behind the men and women in the deep blue uniforms stood the toughest cop of all, keenly aware that the responsibility for keeping the peace was his, positive that his approach to juvenile delinquency was the proper one for a policeman-especially since the other approaches had not solved the problem. For New York's fisty finest, Commissioner Stephen Patrick Kennedy had a last basic police order: "To the extent that we perform our proper function, to that extent will the city be a better place...
...future, a great growth will come in aerosol drugs. Pharmaceutical companies have begun to market heart medicine in aerosol cans. In case of an angina attack, the patient puts the aerosol tube in his mouth, gets the proper dosage with a single press of a button. Also starting to come out: cortisone skin medicines, burn ointments and antiseptics in aerosol cans...