Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Starkweather still seemed to grasp only simple things. Guns, guitars and hot-rods were good; snakes, schoolbooks and recurrent headaches were bad; the right trim to his long copper hair and the proper cant to his cigarette made him look like James Dean. Beyond these, Chuck Starkweather accepted just two constants: 1) the world was against him, 2) when somebody's against you, fight back. This he learned in home town Lincoln, Neb. at Saratoga Elementary School, where the other boys made fun of his bandy legs, his myopic green eyes, his thick spectacles and a speech defect...
...electing conventions. Embezzlement of union funds, false statements or entries and the willful destruction of union records would become a felony. Also a felony for any employer or union representative: to offer or receive a payoff for influencing labor relations. Unions found guilty of failure to file full and proper reports would be denied the services of the National Labor Relations Board and federal income-tax exemption...
...remained an industrial pygmy, earned most of its foreign exchange by exporting tobacco, cereals, filberts, raisins, figs and chrome ore. More than 65% of Turkey's 20 million citizens were still illiterate. Four out of five of the nation's 36,000 rural villages had no proper drinking water. More than half of Turkey's 27,000 miles of "highway" were officially listed as "passable by carts during the dry season only." And Turkey's peasants-80% of the population-still exercised almost no influence on the country's political life...
THROUGH the ages, artists have insisted on proper light to work by, picked their studios accordingly. But as their canvases moved into the hands of collectors and into museums, such meticulous care was rarely taken. Paintings have been plastered on walls from floor to ceiling, hung in dark corners, sometimes illuminated by smoking candles. Even today the museumgoer in Europe can find himself trapped in darkness in Madrid's Prado,* engulfed in fog in London's National Gallery or lost in Florence's unlighted Pitti Palace on a rainy...
Felt indicated that the athletic department hopes to be able to add the money to the endowment rather than spending it as capital on improvements. This arrangement will be possible only if the department is granted a sufficiently large budget from University funds proper. Use of the funds for present needs rather than for permanent endowment would leave the department in the same uncertain predicament in the future that it faced before the recent gifts. The final decision on allocation of the new funds rests with the Corporation, which will act on a budget proposed jointly by Dean Bundy...