Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Movies somehow discourage both reflection and recollection. You can usually remember single episodes or images, but putting them back into their proper narrative sequence is as hard as re-telling a dream. It is equally hard to keep a critical distance between yourself and the film while experiencing...
...sniper fire kept on. At week's end, a group of snipers popped up in the evacuation base at Haina, twelve miles west of Santo Domingo, and killed a marine warrant officer, while three more paratroopers were wounded in the city proper. By now, the U.S. casualty toll was 13 dead, 72 wounded. Offshore cruised a 32-ship U.S. task force. On board were more U.S. Marines ready and waiting...
...forced to pay rates of up to 10% on mortgages for private houses. The dark million cluster in overcrowded, rundown Victorian neighborhoods in and around London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Bradford, where they sometimes make up 20% or 30% of the population. In London districts marked by proper English names such as Blenheim Crescent or Henry Dickens Court, the air reeks with curry and saris crowd the pavements, while other alleys are lined with Moslem butcher shops, Urdu movie houses, West Indian fish stands and Sikh temples. Behind the seamy house-fronts, brightened, Caribbean-style, with mauve, yellow...
...concern," they concluded-that Cleveland's admittedly "shabby" reporting was still not enough to prejudice Sheppard's jurors. Moreover, they went on to virtually sweep aside the entire bar position on the effects of prejudicial reporting. Said they: "Our jury system cannot survive if it is now proper to presume that jurors, selected with the care taken in this case, are without the intelligence, courage and integrity necessary to their obedience to the law's command that they ignore the kind of publicity here involved...
...advanced space-craftsmanship. The first problem was how to get it into an equatorial orbit from Cape Kennedy. If the cape were on the equator, Early Bird's rocket would have been asked only to carry it to the desired height and push it up to the proper speed-about 7,000 m.p.h. But the cape is 28° north of the equator, so Early Bird had to make a more complicated maneuver, turning sideways when it reached orbiting height. This left turn in space was accomplished nimbly, and ever since, Early Bird has kept itself on station...