Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leet, professor of Geology and the University's earthquake expert, called yesterday's early morning tremor "moderate in intensity" and said that it was part of a "pattern" which may bring a major quake to the northeastern U.S. "within twenty-five or fifty years...
During the three weeks of Adams' trial, as the eyes of the whole newspaper-reading world focused in fascination on the pudgy, amiable defendant, expert after expert took the stand at the behest of the crown's prosecutor, Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller. No one denied that on Dr. Adams' orders large doses of heroin, morphine and paraldehyde had been administered to the ailing, 81-year-old widow during the long illness that preceded her death. Only the experts could say whether this medication had hastened her end or merely, as the defense contended, eased...
...Throughout the long hours of technical testimony, the clouds of doubt were continuously marshaled by the skilled cross-examination of another kind of expert: Defense Attorney Geoffrey Lawrence, Q.C. A puckish, mousy little man with a mind as orderly as a calculating machine. Barrister Lawrence, specialist in real estate and divorce cases, was a relative stranger in criminal court. In his curled white wig and black silk robe, he lacked entirely the stage color of the traditional defense lawyer; yet almost apologetically he managed to leave witness after witness floundering in confusion...
...middle of his third day in the box, Dr. Douthwaite was more than ready to concede that there was "a possible alternative view" to his original contention. Under Lawrence's acid crossexamination, the crown's second expert, Dr. Michael George Corbett Ashby, was likewise forced to admit that the possibility of death by natural causes "cannot be ruled...
...itself. One baseball star who was approached to appear on $64,000 Question says that he was asked for a commitment that he would go for the top prize but was assured that his questions would be batting-practice pitches. Connecticut's Vivien Kellems, who was billed as expert on taxes, laid down the condition that her questions be limited to U.S. income tax. The producers obliged. One noncelebrity candidate for the $64,000 Challenge says that in her screening interview she was assured that "we tailor questions to the kind of mind we are working with...