Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...noun maverick, taken from Cattleman Samuel A. Maverick* (1803-70), had long since become a recognized part of the American language. But as a proper name, it had gradually dropped out of the nation's ears since fire-bright Maury Maverick, New Deal Congressman (1935-38) and ex-mayor of San Antonio, became a political has-been. Last week, by winning a Democratic primary race for the Texas legislature, his son flicked the dust off the old name. At 29, Maury Jr., an ex-Marine officer, was verbally a mere ghost of his father; he even turned the other...
...bound channel. These were questions for the board of inquiry and the courts to decide; even before the inquiry was over the U.S. filed a damage action asking $14 million from the Luckenbach Line, accusing it of negligence. Among the government's accusations: Excessive speed, failure to sound proper whistle, failure to use radar or other navigational warning aids and failure to have proper lookouts on watch...
...have to forget about my privacy and keep my door open to get the proper ventilation," said...
...Topper" Reynolds grew up, Libby stopped singing Moanin' Low, Body and Soul and the other torch songs that made her famous. She studied serious drama, collected American folk music, and learned from left-wing Negro Balladeer Josh White how to sing with the proper guttiness. In 1939, she got married again, to Ralph Holmes, an actor eleven years her junior. But that marriage, too, ended in the moody sadness Libby used to sing about. Holmes died in 1945 from an overdose of sleeping pills...
Churchill asked for more U.S. and British troops on the continent, formally proposed establishment of "a unified European army subject to proper control and acting in full cooperation with the U.S. and Canada." His motion was carried by 89 votes to 5, with 27 delegates abstaining. (Of the five nay votes, one was cast by a British socialist and four by Irish members, who attacked Mr. Churchill for British "aggression" in Ireland...