Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uprising began in earnest on March 10 when Ky's junta dismissed Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, long considered Ky's chief rival for power within the Directory. Administration experts are convinced that the ambitious little general was only Tri Quang's pawn. "Thi's dismissal simply gave the movement a little more whammy," said a top State Department expert. In Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy's view, Tri Quang's men want to "accelerate the timetable" for a change in government in order to set up "a constitution and elections that would...
Castigating Russians. Inevitably, Lovell has become best known to the public for his tracking exploits, and he is usually called upon to comment on all significant missions and probes. He obviously enjoys his role of space expert and he has been outspokenly frank-handing out unreserved praise for both Russian and U.S. space achievements while bluntly criticizing what he considers misguided efforts. In 1962 he violently opposed the U.S. hydrogen-bomb explosion in space over the Pacific, and has spoken out against a communications experiment that placed a band of metallic needles in orbit. In both cases he was convinced...
...expert in fluid dynamics and aerodynamics, Chang has worked on nuclear reactors for space propulsion, plasma studies for controlled nuclear fusion reactions, and new structural techniques for aircraft. But ever since he saw an aircraft factory in Nanking destroyed by a sudden twister 35 years ago, he has been determined to unlock the secrets and tame the fury of tornadoes. His artificial storm has now given him his first hope of success...
...required Kirby's Flying Circus (London), a Godzilla-ish sea monster, smoke generators, a wave-making machine, a mobile cloud-carriage and an expert ballet troupe--but the Boston Opera's unfathomable Sarah Caldwell managed to elevate Jean-Phillipe Rameau's mediocre first opera, Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), in its American premiere, to a delightful rococo Juliet of the Spirits...
...peoples of the Pacific Ocean, Alan Moorehead (The White Nile, The Blue Nile, Cooper's Creek) has constructed a coherent parable that is an irony in time a version of the fall of man-a chronicle of inevitable disasters. The "impact" of which he writes in this unobtrusively expert narrative is the effect of the European Enlightenment upon the primitive, "the fateful moment when a social capsule is broken open, when primitive creatures, beasts as well as men, are confronted for the first time with civilization...