Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Generally, the M-16 rates high praise from the men in Viet Nam, who find its light weight (7.6 Ibs.) and rapid rate of fire ideal for jungle warfare. With proper maintenance, which will always be necessary to prevent jamming, the fighting men in Viet Nam should also find it a lethally reliable friend in need...
Over forty thousand Chinese are jammed into the 42 blocks of Chinatown proper between Bush Street and Broadway, Kearny and Powell. About 30,000 have spilled north and west into adjacent residential districts; 10,000 more live throughout the Bay Area...
...used to control temperature and humidity levels in nearby greenhouses. Even the exhaust gases, consisting largely of carbon dioxide, are put to work. From the heat exchanger, they are pumped through a scrubber, which rids them of harmful sulfur dioxide, and into the greenhouses, where they provide the proper level of carbon dioxide for ideal plant growth. "Like the old joke about the efficiency of meat-packing plants," says Hodges, "we are even using the squeal of the pig by tapping every beneficial aspect of this engine...
Williamson is particularly enthusiastic about his operatic output, which already includes not only small, occasional pieces such as Prince, but also a fullscale, splashy setting of Novelist Graham Greene's spy fantasy, Our Man in Havana. Finding the proper operatic text is a huge problem. "I need something I can destroy," Williamson says, "a play that I can take apart and rebuild my own way. Verdi got this kind of thing from the trashy plays of his fellow romantics, adapted by saintly and compliant librettists. It's not so easy any more." Probably for this reason, the libretto...
...Losers are a bunch of lorn boozers, motorcyclists who get their kicks by staging rape-ins and terrorizing towns. Even the police are afraid to touch the little-read riding hoods who swagger around California wearing swastikas and blaring "man," "cool" and "baby" in between crimes. As is only proper in a low-grade western, vigilante justice finally prevails when a rodeo-riding half-breed (Tom Laughlin) hunts them down and makes them cry into their beards...