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Word: properous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could be carried through with mutual advantage . . . Then there was the further fact that the Egyptians had . . . been developing ever-closer relations with the Soviet bloc countries . . . And in that way the Egyptians, in a sense, forced upon us an issue to which I think there was only one proper response. That issue was: Do nations which play both sides get better treatment than nations which are stalwart and work with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Two for the Book | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...vaulted, marble-floored State Palace. In one bank of chairs on one side of the hall sat the civilian politicians of all persuasions. Facing them across a space of 20 feet sat the military men-who are, to a man, disturbed by the politicians' bickering. With a proper sense of dramatic timing. Sukarno let the two groups stare at each other in silence for 30 long and thoughtful minutes. Then the President strode in and talked for 90 minutes. His solution for Indonesia's governmental chaos was simple indeed. Said Sukarno: "I, President Sukarno, have appointed Citizen Sukarno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Man in Charge | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...involves its giving the Cabinet the power to pass on the Vice-President's right to accede temporarily or otherwise. As the Cabinet, not in any sense an elective group, has historically shown either deep allegiance to the President or equally profound disagreement with him, it is not the proper body to make such a decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presidential Disability | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

...oppose the anxious attempts of "righteous moralists" to undercut Harvard's responsibility for providing the opportunity and the risk proper to higher education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Readers Criticize 'Veritas' Committee | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

Williams began his lecture with "a brief political history of the United States" in which he examined the shifting powers of the state and federal governments. He attempted "to indicate how divided we are in our thinking about the proper role of the state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Urges States to Justify Powers With Better Leadership | 4/12/1957 | See Source »

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