Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's new Russian Research Center will operate almost without competition in a field of unquestionable and immediate importance. Postwar Soviet Russia has already been analyzed economically, politically, and militarily by newspapermen, professors, senators, trained observers, and other species of export. The result, as far as the non-expert observer is concerned, has been a collection of conclusive facts diametrically opposed by a collection of equally conclusive facts. Except for the Hoover Library at Stanford, the Research Center will be the only major organization devoted to a discovery, on a coldly academic basis, of the actual nature of modern Russian...
Then they went on, leaving the future U.N. in a peace disturbed only by an unintentionally symbolic sign which read: "Serge, this is the equipment. Lancaster will help, he's the expert." There it all was: international effort, the expert, the equipment-everything, indeed, but the common purpose...
...shrug or grimace the work of ten. It ranges from the simple ("I no like that") to the colorfully complex ("You stay go, I stay come," meaning "You go ahead, I'll join you later"). When Hawaiian idiom is mixed with pidgin grammar, the result takes an expert to fathom. Sample: "He no got wahine. She too much pilikia. Make him huhu." ("He has no girl any more. She was too much trouble. She made...
Most interesting localism modifying the game that Wild Bill Hickok died over is politely translated from the colloquial as "Upset the adjacent player's plans." Seven cards are distributed to the participants, and they pass around three, pick up another three, and discard two. One expert abandoned this delightful game when he found the others passing his money roll around...
...first one, filmed by ski expert Dick Dorrance, is called "Olympic Preview" and features downhill and slalom shots of the American ski team tryouts held last winter. "Lets Go Skiing," the second short, is a personalized version of pleasure skiing and racing in the West...