Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that most of the cast have been playing together now for several seasons, and have developed a sort of repertory-company feeling of ensemble. With one exception, every member of the cast down to the tripping maid (Moira Wylie '60) and whirlwind butler (Robert Jordan '59) capture the proper unified style in both word and gesture...
...Congress, Adams' acceptance of small gifts and favors from an old Boston friend (see Investigations) would have caused scarcely a ripple, his dutiful referrals of his friend to the proper federal investigative agencies would have been the mark of a Congressman taking good care of a constituent. But nobody knew better than honest Sherman Adams that the White House code was the underpinning of far more than an election platform. It was the base of the President's tremendous moral authority in the nation and the world. The code-and the authority-could be no more lustrous than...
...Even after final profession of vows, a nun may be released from her vows by a decree of secularization issued by proper authority...
This skirmishing between old and esteemed staffers delights the Times, which requires neither man to conform to any policy, including its own editorials. Says Reston: "Two guys looking at a story are bound to see it in different ways. Why not print both views? I think this is the proper expression of journalism...
...after high school, was lured away from a drugstore in his home town of Provo, Utah, by the glowing picture of dime-store opportunity painted by a local Woolworth manager. He started as a window trimmer, became a store manager in Denver at 20, soon proved to have the proper mixture for success: administrative talent with the ability to get along with people. He bossed stores in five cities across the nation, became manager of the Boston district before being called to Manhattan in 1954. ¶ George L. Cobb, 47, president of Zeller's Ltd., a Canadian variety-store...