Word: proper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first set, the Crimson burst out to a 10-3 lead and seemed to have everything well in hand. Co-captain Shossberger taught Lowell how a proper kill is executed, Harvard style, on three separate occasions during the set. The setter for some of those kills was a valiant Burger, who played the game with a hurt and heavily bandaged chin...
...when Gorbachev visited. Problem is, the students weren't up on their Mao." Had they been, they might have come upon a 1927 essay in which the future Chairman identified atrocity as a desirable power-holding tactic. "To right a wrong," Mao wrote, "it is necessary to exceed the proper limits, and the wrong cannot be righted without the proper limits being exceeded . . . To put it bluntly, it is ((sometimes)) necessary to bring about a brief reign of terror...
...this military aid should turn into economic aid and keep on flowing into the country while it recovers economically." < Villalobos, who called for an end to U.S. military aid, voiced skepticism that the Bush Administration "would choose to continue indefinitely its support for the war." He also hoped for "proper relations" with the U.S. Last week the U.S. Senate voted to boost military aid to El Salvador by $5 million, to $90 million...
Bush and the governors agreed that programs for disadvantaged children, like Head Start--which provides proper nutrition and academic preparation for preschoolers--should top the current education agenda...
Returning Indian remains to the proper heirs is not always easy. What contemporary group, asks David Hurst Thomas of New York City's American Museum of Natural History, can speak for a tribe that no longer exists? "If we find things from 10,000 years ago," he says, "it becomes tricky." Another potential problem: misidentified remains of one tribe might be returned to descendants of a group that was historically its mortal enemy. Beyond that, scholars note, tribes varied widely in their treatment of the dead; for some, the spirit left the remains, while for others, the spirit is still...