Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gilbert and Sullivan is a world bearing no great relation to any other theatrical or musical art. If the proper romping tone is perfectly sustained throughout, any failings become trivial; if it is not, the audience will be making paper planes of the programs before the production is ten minutes...
...tablespoons today. Worlds revolve, nations change hands, but I just stand here, consciously dead. I crawled from loins too old with life. I am a creature of specialization, a power paddle that keeps the wheel going. I look knowledgeable; I laugh at the right jokes; I voice the proper introspective comments about the latest Book-of-the-Month Club classic. I am a vegetable...
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...series of official meals (no pork, in accordance with Moslem law), King Mohammed and his party, including two sons, a brother, no wives, headed for Texas. He was met at the airport near Dallas in a funeral director's Cadillac limousine (Dallas, unaccountably, could not produce a proper car from any other source), toured a General Motors plant in nearby Arlington. He took in a fashion show at Neiman-Marcus' department store, and best of all, got a good taste of cowboy life at the famed King Ranch, where the land and the vast expanses seemed more like...
Military agencies are geared for "maximum readiness" and are too complex for proper decisions, Livingston charged, therefore "military weapons planning procedures and organization must be by-passed...