Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Final Shot. Weyer now had only to substantiate Violet's story with physical proof. Into the case came Ballistics Expert Stanley MacDonald, Multnomah County detective chief in Portland, Ore. MacDonald examined fabric shreds, wall sections, photographs, figured the directions of the four shots, compared firings from the shotgun. Two months later he presented his findings: Marion Sill had fired three times at Violet, then reloaded the gun; the fourth shot, which entered Sill's neck from a perpendicular angle, was the one that splattered his flesh on the ceiling, the one that Violet triggered from the floor. Furthermore...
...Philosophy. Watching their team scramble back into the ball game, Volunteer fans reminded themselves that playing the breaks is what Johnny Majors and the rest of Coach Bowden Wyatt's boys do best. They have to. The Volunteers started the season with a squad that no self-styled expert took seriously. Of course, they had little Johnny (5 ft. 10 in., 162 Ibs.), and he could do anything with a football; they also had a couple of tough line men: End Buddy Cruze, Tackle and Captain John Gordy. But that was about all. Making the best...
Baltimore Bachelor Alfred Jenkins Shriver was a legal expert who prided himself on his skill with wills and his eye for beauty. He left behind, after his death in 1939, a dilly of a will to prove both points of pride. Not counting 235 bottles of scotch, 165 bottles of champagne, 15 gallons of pure alcohol and one bottle "of Howard County applejack (all of which went down the drain to avoid tax complications), he left a round $900,000 to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to build Shriver Hall of materials "the best obtainable in the world...
...which betrayed most representatives' desire to go to supper as quickly as possible, the Council heard first from Greg Stone '58, chairman of Combined Charities. He said that he had looked into the best means of distributing the Harvard gift, and on the basis of his efficiency as an "expert" at fund raising, had chosen World University Service. Accordingly, and with no authorization, Stone had invited a New York representative of WUS who would explain how his organization would spend the money. The WUS man reported that all of the University's donation, along with gifts from several other American...
...popular artist be reconciled with the long history of art? And how can the knowing modernist achieve the primitive's rapport with his own environment? Shahn," says Rodman, "consciously out of a painful apprenticeship to the centuries of Western painting had managed somehow to devise an expert means of simple communication--"Obin (the Haitian) could not tell me why or how he did anything. Shahn a man of commanding intellect, astonishing memory and unusual articulateness, perhaps could...