Word: properly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popped up in the hearings last week on automobile air bags. Secretary of Transportation William Coleman said the decision on installing the devices "raises fundamental questions about the proper role of Government in the lives of the citizens of this country." Linking auto ignitions to seat belts went too far, Coleman noted, and so may laws requiring motorcycle helmets. After a great public cry, the maddening buzzer system was thrown out, and helmet laws are now being attacked. Mill might have nodded approval. Not Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, who protested last week that by not making air bags mandatory...
...John Josselyn wrote of the Massachusetts settlements: "The Diseases that the English are afflicted with, are the same that they have in England, with some proper to New-England, griping of the belly (accompanied with Feaver and Ague) which turns to the bloudy-flux, a common disease in the Countrey, which together with the small pox hath carried away abundance of their children." This same Josselyn attributed to the Indians "the great pox" (syphilis), consumption of the lungs, the King's Evil (scrofula) and falling sickness-all of which happened to be imports from the Old World...
Daniel Branton, professor of Biology and head of Harvard's biohazards committee, said yesterday he thought the formation of a citizen's committee is a proper way to reach a decision about the research. He added that he welcomed the health commissioner to attend any of the biohazard committee meetings...
Young claims that he and Carter seek the same goal of a rejuvenated South restored to its proper importance in national politics. But he did not always hold so lofty a view of Jimmy. As a veteran of the civil rights movement, he had thought that "nothing good could come out of southwest Georgia," and felt that Carter came from the "meanest cracker country there is." But Carter's mother Lillian, whom Young met in 1970, smoothed the way to a meeting of minds. Young was impressed by the fact that she joined the Peace Corps...
...judges should focus on "the appropriateness or offensiveness of the police conduct," with emphasis on disapproving actions "that would be criminal for the private citizen." Justice Felix Frankfurter agreed. "The crucial question," he said, "is whether the police conduct ... falls below standards, to which common feelings respond, for the proper use of Government power." But that was 1958, and Frankfurter was writing only for four Justices. His view remains a minority one, and there seems little likelihood that it will soon prevail...