Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome correspondent had heard vaguely about a troubled situation, not within biking distance of Rome but 2,000 miles away, and, after getting there, found that he not only had to wrestle with a language (Uighur) in which even the U.S. State Department has no expert but also had to gather correct information about an overall situation with which neither he nor almost anyone else was familiar...
Another is Harold Wilson, 31, the youngest President the Board of Trade has ever had.* A star student at Oxford and later a don, he is an expert on coal and a master statistician. The third is George Russell Strauss, 46, the new Supply Minister, who made his mark as the Transport Ministry's parliamentary secretary by brilliant work on the transport nationalization bill...
...Government, fresh from the University of Wisconsin, thinks that in a fundamental way it is the "flexibility" which permits men of every partisan, tie to, cut across dogmatic lines and tackle common problems together. It is the co-operative planning process distinctive to free governments. To public administration expert Gaus the great intangible in United States success rests with "bringing people into practical community problems where they'll forget formal ideologies and get down to some real thinking...
...ever, and "The Druid Circle" moves forward with an oiled speed that is sure to keep you awake and lively for the full two and a half hours. Though threadss are dropped aimlessly all over the last two acts, they are line, colored, interesting threads, spun by an expert, if careless, craftsman...
...firing is indoors from the 50-foot line, which may seem paltry to the former G.I. used to 100 through 500 yard ranges in basic training. Beverly noted, however, that a .22 in the hands of an expert riflemen is just as accurate up to 100 yards as is the .30 calibre Garand...