Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...communique" from Damascus. "O people!" it said, "a mean imperialist plot" has just been discovered. At least three members of the U.S. embassy staff in Syria were said to be involved. "At the helm of the conspiracy," said the Damascus radio, was Second Secretary Howard Stone, "a most skillful expert" who had "hatched" plots before in the Sudan, Iran, Guatemala. Only the day before, said the communique, "this Stone" had set up meetings in Damascus between two young Syrian officers and two Syrian "reactionaries" and promised them $300 million to "stage a coup and make peace with Israel...
...rocky, underpopulated, not-very-strategic Afghanistan, where the U.S. and Russia are now competing for favor, Russian foreign aid officials have shown themselves at least as expert as U.S. officials are everywhere said to be in supplying reluctant populations with benefits they do not particularly want and do not particularly need...
...Papanicolaou smears" and similar cancer tests based on examination of cells from suspected disease sites, specially trained technicians have to examine the slides, pass the doubtful ones on to pathologists for further expert scrutiny. Such technicians are scarce. To get around this, the University of Tennessee in Memphis is experimenting with an electronic-eye "cyto-analyzer" that, it is hoped, will pick out the obvious negatives, leave truly suspicious slides for the pathologists to check...
...worst fear I ever had to overcome"), Bonatti finally found a tiny fissure in the rock. He pounded in steel pitons, and from them he and Gobbi hung backward over nothing while easing out from under the rock to reach the sheer green ice face above. There, with Ice Expert Gobbi leading, they climbed 2,000 ft. more, camped the second night on another inches-wide ledge in a freezing wind...
...ailment; in home-town Vienna, Ga. Born on a poor Georgia farm, George rose from a Georgia lawyer to associate justice on the State Supreme Court. Elected to the Senate, George began serving (1926) on the tax-writing Finance Committee, soon was recognized as the Chamber's tax expert. He fought off Franklin Roosevelt's 1938 attempt to dump him as no "liberal," countered: "I'm a liberal within limitations of the Constitution. I'm sure the people of Georgia want a voice in the Senate, not an echo." But over the desegregation issue his voice...