Word: properly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Politics in Japan has traditionally been a sport for the upper classes, those proper conservatives who went to the elite schools and enjoyed the right connections. Premier Kakuei Tanaka, 56, son of an indigent horse trader and a self-made millionaire, was a striking ex ception. Boasting nicknames like "the Computerized Bulldozer," he swept into the premiership 28 months ago with promises of "decision and action" and an expansion of trade with China. Last week he proved to be a victim of his own hard-driving success...
...express concern over indications of a growing anti-Semitic feeling in the United States. I hope that the Middle East conflict can be kept in proper perspective...
PRESERVATION WAS introduced in a cinematographic style which included a recording of a kind of lyrical overture accompanied by slides projected on a large screen to announce the oratorio title and introduce the protagonists. The performance proper commenced with a mixed choir clad in garments befitting Gregorian monks. Appropriately enough, the introductory segment was a melodious theme calling to mind twelfth century plainchant. The show proceeded faultlessly without elaborate ornamentation or stage settings, which was just as well, since it allowed the audience to concentrate on the musical side of the production...
...mandate. Meanwhile he has made it known that he wants something "con crete" in return-for example, a sign that Israel is prepared to return to a resumed Geneva conference. Syria, like its chief supporter and arms supplier, the Soviet Union, still sees Geneva talks as the proper vehicle for achieving a final settlement. As a heavyhanded way of underscoring Moscow's support at a ticklish moment, a small Soviet naval flotilla-a cruiser, a destroyer and a submarine-dropped anchor at Latakia as the U.N. mandate was being discussed...
...strength of the beam. This rapid action produces at least 25 still pictures per second on the screen, creating the illusion of moving images. In the new Westinghouse system, the images are also formed by producing glowing dots on the phosphorescent surface of the screen in the proper sequence. But the electronic stimulus that triggers the dots occurs within the screen itself; because there is no electron beam, there is no need for a deep-throated, bulky cathode-ray tube...