Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more important source of private income comes from refurbishing such shoddily mass-produced essentials as clothes, shoes and furniture. One of the wealthiest men in Moscow is an expert cobbler who specializes in fixing boots botched in the cooperative repair shop and, complained one Moscow newspaper, can afford to fly all 19 members of his household down to a Black Sea resort every summer. A good dressmaker lives equally well, can pick and choose her customers, and takes only those with the best references-and the most money. Minor house repairs are another lucrative source of private income: a Literaturnaya...
...Longest Day, by Cornelius Ryan. An expert, exciting and microscopic examination of Dday...
...President John T. Connor for an explanation, he was well prepared. The big companies, said he have different selling costs for individual sales and bulk sales to Government, could not stay in business if they sold to everybody at the same price. Connor turned out to be such an expert witness that Kefauver complained : "Every time I ask you a question you start reading." Replied Connor, who had 22 assistants with him and had spent six months getting ready to testify: "I thought I would do you the honor of coming well prepared, sir." Asked why Merck's prednisone...
...gradually expanded to its full 172-ft. diameter. Huddled in the trim, 7-ft. pressurized spherical gondola that dangled beneath it like an afterthought were two scientists-Commander Malcolm Ross, 40, a balloonist from the Office of Naval Research, and Physicist-Engineer Charles B. Moore Jr., 39, a balloon expert who works for Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. Their object: to get mankind's first good look at Venus clear of most of the earth's muffling atmosphere...
...year. The rest are recent high school graduates, may get college credit. The curriculum: English composition, biology, social science, French, all used as practical tools. The biology course, for example, focuses on the world's food, health, and population problems. "We're not trying to make experts," says Jaeger. "There is nothing so obnoxious as a 17-year-old expert. But we do hope they will come back wanting to do something in some field...