Word: expertness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are other problems. One of the biggest is the presence of the 30,000 North Vietnamese regulars that Giap has sent down the Ho Chi Minh trail in the past year. Regional distrust and dislike between northerners and southerners in Viet Nam is centuries old, and, says one expert in Saigon, "the southern Viet Cong have long been afraid of a Red Napoleon." They now have one: half the main-force Viet Cong units not tied down to static defense are led by North Viet Nam officers, and there have been major seedings of Viet Cong into North Vietnamese...
...touch of arthritis in the left knee, presumably the result of an old football injury; bursitis in the left elbow, similar to some old trouble in his right shoulder. But neither for him nor his fellow sufferers is any preventive medicine effective. Indeed, it took Walter Reed's expert doctors weeks of tests before they could put the label "osteoarthritis" on their patient's wrist pains. After that, the prescription was as simple as the diagnosis had been painstaking: aspirin to ease the pain and a combination of rest with gentle exercises to free the joints. The doctors...
Today it is clear that in most cases, arthritis and rheumatism are not single, definable diseases but names loosely applied to many disorders in and around joints. They make up a majority of the 83 related ills listed by an expert committee of the American Rheumatism Association, and the causes of most of them remain unknown...
...difficult to see how he won. Diets almost never let down his guard against anyone who acts like an expert. Even when he is sitting and talking with a reporter, he constantly interrupts himself by asking. "Did what I just say make sense?" If the reporter answers yes, Dietz simply asks...
...Harvard Administration feels more secure with the information Whitlock gathers and the friends he has made. In Whitlock they feel they have someone who can mollify the politicians and help smooth over differences; moreover--and just as important--they feel they have an "expert," someone who can offer them more than guess-work about different events in the City...