Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, Israeli jets hit Arab bases in Jordan, Syria and Iraq. They swept in from the sea to hit Egyptian bases deeper inside Egypt; and after landing only long enough to refuel, they hammered away until 25 of the most vital fields in the Arab world lay smoking. So expert were the Israeli pilots that they seldom seemed to waste a bomb, a rocket or a bullet. Their reconnaissance photos showed plane after plane smashed and burning?with hardly a crater in the runways or the level sands surrounding the targets...
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN Robert J. Kleberg Jr., SC.D., president of Texas' King Ranch. Expert in domestic plant and animal genetics, earnest in the preservation of wildlife...
Those two infractions, plus another 20-day suspension for "interference" in a previous claiming race at Aqueduct, gave Ycaza a total of 50 days of enforced vacation since April. But more than one racing expert thought Ycaza's punishment was too light. Mused Morning Telegraph Correspondent Charles Hatton: "One wonders when an erring athlete in this sport is to be considered incorrigible...
After publishing his Ph. D. thesis on railroad regulation in 1948, he became a leading national expert on the subject...
Already anthropologists have attacked Mumford as an armchair expert and dismissed his notions on the origins of speech as unknowable. He says language comes from dreams. "Before man achieved speech, his own unconscious alone must have been the only impelling voice he recognized, speaking to him in its own teasingly contradictory and confused images. Only a kind of dull doggedness can perhaps account for man's ability to get the better of these treacherous gifts and make something of them," and only by command of language was man able to embrace technics and articulate the significance of his achievements...