Word: properly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Syracuse, N.Y., supervises the candidate's advance work, attempting to get the widest possible exposure with as much drama as possible. Kennedy and entourage roll up to a small-town school. No one is in sight. Will he be photographed being greeted by no one? Hardly. At the proper moment, kids stream on cue from every door, engulfing the candidate, filling the lenses. After stumping a city, the staff sometimes prepares an exhaustive written critique on what went right?and wrong...
...keep the crowds' attention, Kennedy employs a variety of tactics. At the proper moment, he orders: "Clap!" They do, and they laugh. Occasionally he tries a little antiphony. "Will you vote for me?" "Yeah," says the crowd. "Will you get your friends to vote for me?" "Yeah." "When people say something bad about me, will you say it isn't true?" "Yeah." "Have you read my book?" "Yeah...
Germans are so obsessed by titles that every etiquette book devotes at least one chapter to their usage. One, in fact, deals with nothing else: Das Grosse Anrede Buck-the giant book of proper addresses-which lists about 1,500 of the most important titles and explains in detail which ones take precedence over others. Often, the lower the title, the greater its length. The winner: Erster Hauptwachtmeister im Strafvollzugsdienst, which denotes the post of first watchman in the penal system...
...brought with him the complete battle plan. Nonetheless, the Communists attacked, launching 26 battalions toward the city, more than twice as many as employed during Tet. With the allies waiting, it was a lemming-like march to almost certain destruction. Not a major unit got inside Saigon proper. Many of the attackers were so youthful and green and recently infiltrated that they got lost en route. Some 5,000 were killed, and another defector, North Vietnamese Regimental Commander Lieut. Colonel Truong Trung Doan, surrendered because he had been ordered to make suicidal attacks. Militarily, Tet II was disastrously expensive...
...reputation for immorality." Yet in today's easygoing society, George Gordon Lord Byron seems less of a satyr than a swinger; so a group of Byron buffs led by Derek Parker, editor of the Poetry Review, and Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis have petitioned that he receive his proper niche in the abbey's Poets' Corner. Their word was good enough for the Very Rev. Eric Abbott, present Dean of Westminster, who ordered that an appropriate plaque be placed in Poets' Corner next April, on the 145th anniversary of Byron's death...