Word: proper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proper Name. In Los Angeles, the National Pest Control Association, in annual convention, voted to form a women's auxiliary to be known as the Ladybugs...
...official permits to travel, to work or be absent from work, to walk the streets after 9 p.m., to have their wives live with them in "locations" (suburban areas, usually overcrowded shantytowns, set aside for natives). Some 75,000 blacks go to jail each year because they are without proper passes. A hangover from slavery days, the pass system is a major grievance of the black majority against the ruling white minority...
...proper to pass a law if its constitutionality is in doubt," he said, "but it is improper, even if the bill is a desirable one, to pass it if it is unconstitutional...
There is a proper way to see this film: forget the plot, its inconsistencies and implausibilities, and condemn the few points where farce takes over. Just sit back and savor the conversation of a lot of very amusing people...
...this strange and bloody epoch of the sea," pipe Publishers Doubleday, forgetting in their rapture that "epic" is the proper pennant to hoist on such occasions, "Robert Graves turns his incomparable talents to the remarkable Ysabel Barreto -beautiful and dangerous-who used treachery, intrigue, and love to become the first woman admiral in the Spanish navy and then embarked on a perilous voyage, filled with incredible and startling adventures, to the Solomon Islands in search of gold...