Word: expertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President had gone, Dulles relaxed in his bed-blood pressure 125 over 70, temperature normal, pulse 70. Scheduled to begin this week: radiation therapy, the only treatment advisable for the serious condition of free-floating cancer cells. From Dulles' sister, Eleanor Lansing Dulles, a State Department Germany expert, came the closest approach to the truth that is possible in such a situation: "It is grave. There is no question about it. But Foster has more than the normal power of selfdiscipline, and in his case it isn't wise to go on averages...
After delivery, most German firms guarantee prompt, expert maintenance-wherever possible by local workmen trained by Germans. Says an official of Munich's Siemens & Halske electric company: "Nationalistic Middle East governments like it when they find that in dealing with Siemens they are dealing with a nearly all-Arab group...
...items. Possibly because the column rested on that highly dubious journalistic base, Watson at times stretched a grin into a guffaw. "Three noted ex-cons are busy about town putting together a burglar-alarm system," he wrote one day in 1956. "The guy who installs it is an expert-served in three state prisons for a total of twelve years-for burglary...
Nobody knew much about Alexander L. Guterma when he arrived in Wall Street five years ago. But he quickly showed himself such an expert in frenzied finance that he got control of F. L. Jacobs Co. (auto parts maker), Bon Ami Co. (scouring powder), Hal Roach Studios (Gale Storm Show), and the Mutual Broadcasting System. Last December Guterma's empire began to crumble...
...calls Fisk "easily the most notorious man in the nation." Probably no tycoon before or since combined so blatantly the related arts of lavish loose living, public fleecing and judicial fixing. "What the Tweed Ring was in government, the Erie Ring was in finance." The twain, interlocked by the expert pincer movements of corrupt judges, sheriffs and countless lawyers, put on a display of operatic chicanery that still makes for breathless reading...