Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Armenians, an Oriental rite communion of the Roman Catholic Church with headquarters near Beirut. Generally considered one of the best brains in the church, Agagianian was appointed by Pope Pius XII to succeed the late Cardinal Stritch as chief of all Catholic missions, is the church's top expert on the Mideast and Communism. His Russian-Armenian origin, which militates against his choice, in another respect weighs in his favor: his election would greatly impress Russians and other Eastern peoples...
That was three years ago. The army enthusiastically grabbed Schneider, appointed him a staff doctor with a major's salary. Top officers glowed about Schneider's "outstanding" abilities and moved him to the job of Sachbearbeiter fur psychologische Fragen (expert on psychological problems) at the Cologne induction center. There, he worked out a guidance handbook to help officers in screening volunteers for the army, boasted that his methods were used in the induction of 80,000 German soldiers. Said a brigadier general: "Schneider's work remains the basic pattern for the techniques of induction officers...
Johns Hopkins identified it 30 years ago as the Philistine city of Gath, home town of the giant Goliath who died when Slingshot Expert David sunk a stone in his forehead. The Israeli government named a nearby settlement Kiryat Gath (Gath-town), and settlers were proud of Gath's Biblical background, even though the city and Goliath had been anti-Israelite...
...these types undoubtedly have their counterparts in real life, but the authors weaken their case by often carrying ridicule beyond reason. A single minor Navy officer, for instance, is shown as preventing the Indian government from accepting U.S. atom bombs. Captain Boning supposedly is the only American technical expert at an Asian arms conference, and he ruins the whole show by giving a hesitant answer to a question about A-bombs that a bright high school student could furnish (the reason he is hesitant is that he is sleepy, having spent most of his nights with a Communist-Chinese cutie...
Both Holly and Mrs. Wheeler have proposed further study of the parking situation. Mrs. Wheeler said "it deserves a full investigation," while Holly favored the creation of a study committee. He added, however, that the creation of a traffic expert as suggested by Mrs. Wheeler, would "be even more than we had expected...