Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...injections of Government spending (dope) by Uncle Sam (the doctor) result in strengthening public confidence and in adding push to the private economy (the patient), then the treatment will be proper. Of course, the patient ought to get well enough to go off dope and pay the doctor's bill...
...improve his game (mid-80s), topnotch Physicist-Professor Luis W. Alvarez, 46, went about it scientifically, designed a stroboscopic golf-trainer. The electronic gadget allows the golfer to see "a series of positionally arrested images" of the club head and tell whether it is approaching the ball at the proper angle. The University of California physicist shipped one trainer to a fellow golfer in the White House, last week received a patent (No. 2,825,569) on his idea...
...beginning of the end, with the death of Queen Victoria and the Boer War. It is astonishing to recall that Historian Churchill himself was once a prisoner of that war, almost 60 years ago. It helps to explain the confidence with which Churchill cuffs the past about into its proper Churchillian posture. When schools are better, his books will be required texts...
Last week the university's sartorial rebels were sharply summoned into line by a new handbook that spells out once and for all the color and cut of the proper Oxonian's robe. Compilers of the authentic landbook: meticulous Ralph E. Clifford, lead clerk in the University Registry, and elegant Dennis R. Venables, co-proprietor of one Oxford tailor shop and Dartner in another...
...this wealth of misconceptions. Ambassador Francis sometimes added a weird and wily nugget of his own. On one occasion, he authorized the chief of the American military mission to help Trotsky in the formation of the new Red army on the ground that such an army could "by proper methods be taken from Bolshevik control and used against Germans, and even [against] its creators." Nevertheless, since official Washington offered scant guidance. Historian Kennan gives Francis high marks for showing as much "fidelity, persistence, courage...