Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a try at scaling her heights, and most of them succeed. But in the winter, when her steep slopes are swept by gales often reaching 100 miles an hour and the temperature drops below zero, the icy-hearted mountain becomes a fickle and merciless termagant. Few, even among expert mountain climbers, care to risk her treachery in the off season, and to those who do, the professional guides in Chamonix offer only negative encouragement. "Risk your neck if you like," they say in essence, "but don't look to us to get you out if you fail...
Hugh Gaitskell was born in London 50 years ago to the middle-class family of a British Civil Servant, out of a tradition identified more with Army service and Toryism than with class-consciousness. His older brother Arthur, an African expert, is today a Tory, and his sister married a Conservative M.P. Hugh attended the rigorous Dragon School at Oxford and went on to head his class at Winchester. At New College, Oxford, he took a first in "P.P.E."," Politics, Philosophy and Economics...
...about then that sophisticated New Yorkers knew that the Mad Bomber was not just whistling through his teeth; the sensation-loving papers cheerfully nursed the tautening nerves. Off the presses came a rash of interviews with psychologists, psychiatrists, jewelers, bomb experts, handwriting experts, cops, scientists. Columnists discoursed learnedly on the psychopathic makeup of the man who so desperately wanted recognition, speculated on everything from his childhood to his sex drives (either weak or strong, depending on the columnist). Hearst's Journal-American thoughtfully provided a do-it-yourself spread on how to make a pipe-bomb; Scripps-Howard...
Richards, one of language research's pioneers, is a well-known expert on word derivation. He instituted the use of stick figures in language teaching and is the author of several widely read pocket books, including French Through Pictures...
...problems plaguing law-enforcement officers dealing with narcotics addicts is how to determine quickly and conclusively whether a suspect is or is not on drugs. Most seasoned addicts are expert at concealing needle marks (sometimes with tattoos). Although addicts show withdrawal symptoms (goose flesh, yawning, nausea, vomiting) when they are cut off from drugs for one to two days, in many cases there are no legal grounds for holding suspects until the symptoms appear. The solution, California's Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement believes, lies in a narcotic antagonist called N-allylnormor-phine, known commercially as Nalline...