Word: properly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interests of what he calls "preventive maintenance." In other words, Ellis decides in advance how AFN will play a sensitive story. In reporting the recent 35,000-man U.S. troop cut in West Germany, for example, he instructed AFN not to use "cut" or "withdrawal"; "redeployment" was the proper word. No longer could AFN refer to the National Liberation Front; the enemy was to be called the Viet Cong only...
...love for the wrong reasons or not at all. Even depressed Willy can tumble a friend's mistress in the friend's own bed and intone: "This is sacrilege, my Jessica. A very important human activity." In the end, however, just about everyone winds up with a proper mate...
...British intelligence operations in Washington in 1951, he had personally thwarted a CIA plot to overthrow the Communist government of Albania. How? Simply by letting Moscow in on a CIA airlift of "several hundred saboteurs" who were parachuted into the country. They were, he said, "greeted in a proper...
...decision almost certainly reopened the way to carefully controlled eavesdropping. What will now become known as the Katz rule holds that eavesdropping is constitutionally acceptable if the eavesdropper obtains a warrant by showing probable cause to a proper judicial authority. Then, during the bugging, he must observe the precise limits outlined by the court when the warrant was obtained, and finally, he must report back to the court on just what was overheard as a result of the surveillance. But the court did not say anything that would keep him from using any of the dozens of new, sophisticated devices...
Near the end of this remarkable guided tour of the Chinese mind, the author observes that Peking has become the proper subject "not of the political mathematician but of the sympathetic psychologist." As just the sort of observer he calls for, Bloodworth, who was the Far Eastern correspondent of the London Observer for twelve years, ranges deftly and wittily through Chinese history and literary legend to find the ideas that shape Communist behavior today: the ancient maxims for guerrilla warfare expounded by the 4th century B.C. strategist Sun Wu ("Do not fight a static war, and do not besiege cities...