Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...savvy committee members often delayed proceedings by delivering politics-loaded orations geared to home-state audiences, but even this, wrote one viewer, "was better than soap opera." The committeemen were also TV-wise enough to save the top witnesses until last, sprang the taped phone conversations at precisely the proper dramatic moment, drowning out racy epithets with an electronic beeper signal. Said Schearer: "The Army-McCarthy hearings had its 'Point of Order' slogan. All we've been able to come up with in this one is 'Son of a beep...
...long as republican France ruled Morocco. Paris discouraged the Sultan from calling himself King: it hardly seemed proper for a King to be accountable to a mere President. Last week independent Morocco informed the world that Morocco is henceforth a kingdom and that the proper title for addressing its wealthy ruler is "His Majesty Mohammed V, El Malik [King] of Morocco...
...spite of their many differences, the Kent visitors seemed basically agreed. Education as it stands can never be whole until it finds the proper balance between two great traditions, two kinds of knowledge, and two ways of apprehension...
...with tennis. She continued to work steadily with a new coach, Sydney Llewellyn, a Negro pro from New York with an unusual knack for teaching his rigidly defined theory of tennis. The game to Llewellyn is a ruthless exercise in geometry. For every shot, he argues, there is one proper return, one proper angle to aim for. "You don't play the person, you just play the board as if you were a machine. Tennis looks genteel," he adds, "but it's the meanest, most vicious game I know...
...according to the rule laid down by Freud (who analyzed himself). For years many psychiatrists have deducted the cost of such analysis as a business expense against federal income tax. Now the Internal Revenue Service has cracked down, holding that the membership is sought for prestige, is therefore no proper business expense. Two psychiatrists are suing to have their right of deduction confirmed, arguing that to carry on his profession, an analytic psychiatrist needs a higher degree of mental health than other men. If the Revenue Service will not come around to allowing deduction of the full cost...