Word: proper
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...have not had a proper capability for a limited response. The directive will permit us to substantially increase intelligence satellites and command and controls." Huntington said, adding that the decision was the outcome of a detailed three-year study and did not represent a political reelection ploy...
BRIAN DePALMA'S Dressed to Kill is a steamy, lurid thriller involving a sexually-dissatisfied Manhattan housewife. her brainy teenage son, her psychiatrist, an expensive call girl, and a transvestite killer wearing dark sunglasses and a dirty blond wig, wielding a straightrazor. The story proper is too silly to waste space explaining. You get a sharp sense of the confusion at the film's center when you realize that DePalma plundered the plot, the essential development of jolts, twists and red herrings, from Hitchcock's Psycho. There are two shower sequences, and a murder in an elevator--which is pretty...
...with the responsibilities and time constraints of his office." Powell explained that Carter might invite the Senators to the Oval Office rather than meet them on their own turf. Said Powell: "The President believes we will come out all right in the end because we have behaved in a proper manner. We have nothing to hide...
Schumann's three Fastasiestucke, Op. 73, were composed for clarinet, but the composer authorized performance by violin or cello. Moye imbues the work with proper impetuosity. Moye has also resurrected a pleasant three-movement Sonata in G Major by the little-known Jean-Baptiste Breval (1756-1825), who published many such pieces in the 1780s...
...Paratrooper hits the ground and rolls into a proper landing fall. It is a good jump, a good landing. He looks up at the dense cloud of green parachutes, and he explodes with joy. "You are bea-u-ti-ful!" he screams...