Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little about all these people; and they turned out to be rather fascinating individuals. By the time I wrote the 'study in worldliness' I was already very interested in the period, in the Dutchess and what she represented, and in the Duke, her husband; and not being a military expert I had to use this device, and approach him as it were by hiding behind his wife's petticoats...
...recoiling rifles, the rocket launcher, the carbine, the mortar, and the pistol. He marches to distant ranges where he had been driven before. He learns to use a bayonet, bivouacking for four weeks out of the eight. Two RFA's at Fort Dix, N.J. in 1957 won the Expert Infantryman's Badge, the foot soldier's most coveted award, beating out several combat veterans in the process...
...Other award winners: Missile Expert Wernher von Braun (TIME Cover, Feb. 17), Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert D. Murphy (TIME Cover, Aug. 25), Bureau of Prisons Director James V. Bennett, and Hazel K. Stiebeling, the Agriculture Department's Home Economics Institute director...
Seven years ago Alastair Pilkington, a glass expert, whose father Sir Harry is chief of Britain's great Pilkington glass company, was helping his wife wash dishes. Watching the suds floating on the dishwater, he got an idea that is likely to revolutionize the manufacture of flat glass. Last week Alastair Pilkington explained his "float glass" process in the New Scientist...
George F. Kennan, noted expert on Russia and international affairs, will give a series of lectures at the University a year from this April...