Word: dexterity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the Society from Eliot are Ernest S. Abers, Edward D. Aswell, Morton M. Hackman, Robert S. Kandel, Herbert R. Kohl, Dexter W. Lawson, Joseph S. Lelyveld, James R. McCredie, A. E. Keir Nash, James H. Rieger, and Harold M. Ross...
Narrowing the focus still further, Economist Dexter M. Keezer, director of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Economic Department, predicted that house building, down this year, will rise 10% to a total $16 billion in 1958, balancing in part a 7% decline (to $34.5 billion) in plant expansion. And by 1960-"perhaps before," added Keezer-"investment in new plant and equipment will be heading for another record...
...DEXTER BARTLETT Midland, Mich...
Maurice Halperin, onetime chairman of Boston University's department of Latin American regional studies, who fled to Mexico in 1954 before a scheduled questioning by university authorities. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover included Halperin's name with that of Harry Dexter White in a list of suspected Communist agents sent to President Truman in 1945; according to ex-Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley, Halperin gave her secret documents and party dues when he was employed...
LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER of Newburyport, Mass. Realizing, as no stuffy conformist would, that the quickest way to become a U.S. peer is to confer the title on oneself, Dexter sensibly did just that. "It is the voise of the peopel," he explained in his firm, aristocratic prose, "and I cant Help it and ... it dont hurt A Cat ..." Born in 1747, America's first peer started life "Dressin of skins for briches & glovs," would probably never have grown too big for his briches had he not spent every penny of his savings buying up U.S. "Continentals" and state securities...