top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry); overwhelmed; carried away; because of too much
faint; trance; swoon; stupefaction
to stay indoors; to be confined indoors
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention
document; official papers
dispersion; scattering; spreading out; diffusion
giving up on winning a hand and discarding only safe tiles
whole nation; whole land; whole country
to project; to overhang; to stick out; to put up (a notice); to post
east and west; Orient and Occident; East and West; ladies and gentlemen!; your attention, please!
place; situation; position; location
state boundary; provincial boundary
to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.); to indicate; to show
to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
front; frontage; facade; main
seniority; precedence; upper seat
right; right-hand side; afore-mentioned (esp. in vertical Japanese writing); foregoing; forgoing
leader of a delegation (body, party)
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
aggression; invasion; raid
development; exploitation
coincident with; while; simultaneously
before one's own eyes; from under one's very nose; without doing anything; without resistance; helplessly; negligently
to take good care of; to treasure; to value; to hold dear; to prize; to cherish
to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death
line of defence (defense); lines (as in enemy lines, etc.)
recovery; rescue; recapture
aim; goal; prospect; outlook