Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exactly everybody knows, the chief U.S. official for Latin American affairs is Jack Hood Vaughn, Assistant Secretary of State for the past six months. Vaughn's obscurity is readily explainable: his predecessor, Thomas Mann, is Lyndon Johnson's longtime Latin America expert, and even though Mann has been promoted to Under Secretary of State, it is Mann whom the President phones, not infrequently at midnight, to talk Latin America. Last week Vaughn, a onetime professional boxer and teacher who rose through the civil service to become Peace Corps administrator in Latin America and Ambassador to Panama, set about...
...here all night." Museum Director Teddy Kollek finally brought her out of the trance when he slipped on her finger a silver ring mounted with a 2,000-year-old iridescent glass piece from the Roman ruins of Caesarea−a gift from Kollek's private collection. An expert later warned her not to wear the priceless ring in the sunlight, which might dull its iridescence, but Kollek smiled: "You go ahead and wear it. It will keep for another 2,000 years...
While still in his early teens, Claude Brown was the coolest of Harlem cats: smoker of pot, snuffer of cocaine, graduate of two reform schools, expert in the arts of bebopping (gang warfare), Murphying (a form of pimping), jugging (fornication) and stinging (armed robbery). Then Brown moved downtown, found a square job, took up the jazz piano and earned a high school diploma attending classes at night. This autobiography is Brown's testament, not to his redemption but to his misspent youth. Nowhere does he explain what inner strength rescued him from himself; the reader must consult the dust...
...driving her fiance's 1960 Corvair on a narrow two-lane highway near El Nido. The car swerved out of control and hit a 16-ton truck head on, killing her fiance and one of her five children. For Plaintiff Collins, Lawyer David Harney called 46 expert witnesses to back the Collins claim that the 1960 Corvair was "inherently defective." Judge John D. Foley instructed the jury: "The manufacturer of an article who places it on the market for use under circumstances where it knows that such article will be used without inspection for defects is liable...
...Assembly" will try Monday to convene itself in the chambers of the House of Representatives in order to "declare peace with the people of Vietnam." Leaders have indicated that they expert mass arrests