Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accomplish this, he turns the presiding Judge Haywood (Spencer Tracy) into an active figure, avoiding the conventional image of justice in a trial-drama: aloof if not passive. Haywood, whom Tracy plays with proper naivete and the suspicious honesty of a Maine Yankee, is trying the case of Ernst Janning, a once-eminent judge who bowed to the Nazi definition of justice, and three other members of the Hitler judiciary. As the film unfolds these four figures in the dock represent varying levels of recalcitrance. Janning ultimately acknowledges his guilt; but at the other extreme, Emil Hahn continues to belch...
After several weeks of stalking the proper sello (rubber stamp) through the corridors of the Buenos Aires customs house, Zoologist Gerald Durrell was feeling (as his brother, the logodaedalist novelist Lawrence Durrell, might have put it) both phthisic and etiolated. But before long Durrell was again at peace, sleeping under his Land Rover, tormenting a 20-ft.-long bull sea elephant into a cinema-genic rage, using his own big toe as bait to lure a rare vampire bat. The author is a zoophile who tired several years ago of catching animals for other people and, as he related...
Specifically, his interrogators accused Ebtehaj of signing, without proper authority, a contract with David E. Lilienthal's Development & Resources Corp. for a big irrigation and industrial project in Khuzistan province. Reportedly, the deal had been accepted in principle by the government, but not yet formally approved...
...radarscope as he traced the track of airplanes approaching from Europe. The planes seemed to be scattered all over the sky, sometimes as far as 150 miles off course. Only when the planes came within reach of land radio guidance did the blips slant crabwise back to their proper courses...
...would make this decision, Richardson said, because of the relationship between prosecution and defense attorneys in America--essentially one of adversaries. In Europe, on the other hand, where legal proceedings are more like collaborative "quests for truth," the reverse decision might be proper...