Word: properness
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ARGHHH! Can't ... maintain ... proper ... opprobrium...
...mother sends her out with a short haircut and long robes to find work as a "boy" and support the family. It's a reckless ruse, one with potentially fatal consequences. The girl is taken to the men-only prayer ritual, and attends instruction by a mullah in the proper washing of the male genitals. Everyone notices that this "boy" is different?"like a nymph," the mullah says. Her deceit is uncovered by her first menstrual period, and she is married off to an old mullah...
University President James B. Conant ’14 justified the expense, arguing that athletics were “as much a proper charge against the resources of the Faculty as the maintenance of a library or a laboratory...
...record as a tough, capable administrator somehow manages to satisfy both Pentagon hard-liners and State Department moderates. "He takes no prisoners," says a U.S. official, who nonetheless wonders whether Bremer can truly make a difference as long as Washington remains reluctant to conduct what the official calls a "proper" occupation, which means enough men, resources and commitment for the long, hard job of rebuilding...
...really was a journalist before I became this monster," she says, "and sometimes I go on these chat shows and I'd just so much rather talk about al-Qaeda than how to cook a proper lamb." While she says she occasionally feels like a "blow-up doll," Lawson was never happier to have her food universe than when her husband John Diamond spent four years suffering from throat cancer. (He died in 2001; Lawson's current boyfriend is advertising mogul Charles Saatchi.) This explains, at least in part, her food hedonism. "People should stop demonizing fat," she says through...