Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...captured or surrendered, but still the Communist forces seemed to stay about the same. For one thing, army and police efforts were poorly coordinated. Said one police officer: "This is a dirty little war, and we never really know what is going on in time to take proper action...
...find the way easy. The purpose of his trip is to survey all of the possibilities with a completely fresh eye. Whether he decides on any one of the three broad courses, or some combination of the three, the survey itself will help put the Korean war back in proper perspective. The year-long negotiations at Panmunjom, and even the debate in the U.N. over the issue of repatriating prisoners (see INTERNATIONAL), has lulled many a U.S. citizen into thinking of the war as mainly a matter of council-table bargaining...
...forest-girt village of Kirawara, 48 miles north of Nairobi, an awe-struck crowd of 2,000 Kikuyu tribesmen squatted in the market place amid green bananas and calabash gourds, clapping their hands to their mouths to signify their proper respect for "Big Magic." A spindly-legged youth, thought to be a hopeless deaf-mute, had suddenly started prophesying that "God would arrive in Kirawara at one o'clock." Attracted by the commotion, a British-led patrol of Kenya's African police came crashing through the jungle, intent on arresting the prophet as a mouthpiece...
...rocket is shot straight up at less than escape velocity and makes the proper turn as it clears the atmosphere, it will be sidetracked to an orbit above the earth and will circle around endlessly. The centrifugal force of the rocket's motion around the earth will exactly balance the pull of the earth's gravitation. This same balance of forces keeps the moon on its rails...
...Shannon Hall, or any step toward that which isn't absolutely indispensable to producing competent officers, is blatantly improper. The least AROTC could do (and what probably would hardly dent the officers club membership, either) is to leave such things to the candidate himself. Only this way can the proper and preceations balance be kept...