Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your statement that Communist gunners are so expert that they can fire 25 rounds per minute from 82-mm. mortars [March 15] seems a bit farfetched. Exceeding eight or ten rounds per minute is inviting the weapon to melt and ornament your homemade sandals with white-hot metal. Also, your reference to the fine quality of the AK-47 is somewhat discolored. Not only does the AK-47 overheat rapidly, as you stated, it also jams twice as fast as any U.S. weapon, including the M16, because of the cheap stamp ing of the gas cylinder. You mention that...
...seemed to be in irons. Aside from Johnson himself, the key operative so far has been White House Appointment Secretary W. Marvin Watson, a dour, former Texas steel executive whom the President lauds as "the most efficient man I've ever known" but who is less than an expert in national politics...
...into a test that combines the finesse of golf with elements of lawn bowling, horseshoe pitching and pool-plus a dash of chess strategy. A rink (four-man team) scores one point for each stone it keeps closer to the bull's-eye than any rival stones. An expert curler can slide his stone more than 100 ft. down the ice with a spin so fine that it will curl tightly between two enemy stones and settle on the bull's-eye. He can also send his stone thundering into the target to scatter enemy stones like tenpins...
...best, her way is always unpredictable. On one show, when a guest expert on bonsai objected to Thalassa's shears, she snipped right back: "Aren't you being a bit fussy?" Then, casting a rueful glance at the guest's shears, she added: "That thing looks like something out of a medieval torture chamber." Another time, while administering to a Star of Bethlehem, she suddenly cried: "Oh, good Lord! Signs of slugs!" Rummaging through the soil like a Roto-Rooter, she exclaimed, "Aha! There's the little brute!" and flipped it onto a table...
...recent times, only eight of the world's 120 currencies (those of the U.S., Cuba, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Liberia, Panama and El Salvador) have survived the 23 years since the end of World War II without a formal devaluation, according to Manhattan Currency Expert Franz Pick. Since Jan. 1, 1949, Chile has devalued 46 times, Brazil 32, Uruguay 18, South Korea 17. The U.S.S.R. has sliced the value of its ruble three times since World War II - not because of external pressures but to reduce domestic purchasing power...