Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President did not mean." Could it permit the Secretary to eliminate a specific function of one of the services? "People do that, sir," said Burke pointedly. "People eliminate things." Arleigh Burke's statement was an unmistakable call to the committee for help: "This committee is a proper group to resolve these differences into a sound plan founded in carefully drawn legislation." It is reassuring to know, he added with emphasis, "that this committee is devoting its full attention to this important matter...
...government-held ports and airfields were repeatedly bombed and strafed, he cried that "adventurers from Formosa and even from the United States" were responsible (President Eisenhower's answer: "Our policy is one of careful neutrality and proper deportment . . . Now, on the other hand, every rebellion that I have ever heard of has its soldiers of fortune."). Advising the U.S. "not to play with fire," Sukarno added: "If the outside world is thinking in terms of making Indonesia into a second Korea or a second Viet Nam, there will be World...
...Goya [Portrait of La Marquesa de Santa Cruz) looks more magnificent than ever in its proper place in the "softly lighted Spanish Gallery," and, of course, we are all very proud to have her. It was wonderful to be able to give her the kind of debut that you made for her [Los Angeles' Goya-April 14]. The article is excellent, and evidently is having an electrifying effect on friends and colleagues. The Marquesa even got a telegram of saludos and welcome from her three blacksmith countrymen in the Frick's Forge...
...Author Fleming is guilty of using the old school tie as a cultural garrote, it is, fittingly enough, his own. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, 49-year-old Ian Fleming served in Naval Intelligence during World War II, is now foreign manager of the proper Sunday Times. He is married to the former Lady Rothermere, whose press-lord husband named him as corespondent in a divorce suit in 1952. At Goldeneye, his luxurious Jamaica residence, Clubman Fleming has been host to his convalescing friend, Sir Anthony Eden. His critics find his shockers all the more unspeakable because...
...WITH YELLOW SHOES, by Anthony Heckstall-Smith (238 pp.; Roy; $2.75), is a modest memorial to a lonely soul: a middle-aged English bachelor with a little money, a lot of time and a proper sense of duty. Richard Forrest had no good reason for visiting Cairo just before Nasser grabbed the canal, and no sensible explanation for staying on. But after a casual acquaintance was murdered there, what else could a chap do? Not hard-case Communists, unregenerate Nazis or fanatical Arabs of the Brotherhood of Mohammed can stay this fast-moving story. Nor can they keep a muddling...