Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows exactly how sick the Spanish economy was; the regime had no way of compiling proper statistics and went out of its way to obscure the ones it had. But by 1959 all signs were bad. At least one-fourth of Spain's total imports, from whisky to machinery, were being smuggled in. The peseta was swinging wildly on the black market. Inflation was rising, production was actually falling...
...gibes that the Americans in Viet Nam are "imperialists" bent on fighting a "white man's war," Saigon's threatened government did not see the arriving soldiers as devils but as deliverers. Nonetheless, Westmoreland constantly advises his men to remember their proper role there. "Saigon's sovereignty must be honored, protected and strengthened," he insists. "In 1954 this was a French war. Now it is a Vietnamese war, with us in support. It remains, and will remain just that." Nothing proves his point so eloquently as the casualty figures. In 1965 the U.S. suffered 1,241 killed...
Shunted to the proper slot of a mechanical sorter, letters wind up in one of 279 bins representing major U.S. postal zones...
Some legal experts are beginning to criticize the bondsmen's role. "These powers would be abusable enough in the hands of proper and responsible police authorities," says Washington Lawyer Ronald Goldfarb, author of Ransom, a new study of bail problems. "The same powers in the hands of bondsmen are shocking and frightening." Bondsmen argue that they need their special privileges in order to prevent wholesale bond jumping and to keep their fees within the grasp of the average prisoner.* But in view of the present Supreme Court's concern for the rights of accused, the whole subject...
Calculating with split-second exactitude, NASA scientists had determined the proper time of Gemini 6's launch by the position and orbit of Gemini 7. Because the earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours, while Gemini 7 was circling around it once every 96 minutes, there were only one or two brief periods a day when the launch pad for Gemini 6 was located approximately under Gemini 7's orbit and when the orbiting ship was close by-the proper launch "window" for a rendezvous attempt. For Wednesday, ideal launch time had been calculated...