Word: expertness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explosives expert, Kistiakowsky's advice on the proposed anti-infiltration barrier into Vietnam will be missed. But his resignation is also viewed as having considerable symbolic value. Other professors allegedly may follow his example...
...critic, he seems to have proved himself as a prophet: "A picture on the cover of TIME magazine, as any perceptive recipient of the honor must know, is taken by a large number of people to mean that the individual is henceforth much more in need of expert criticism than applause." (From his book The Liberal Hour...
...whether in Chicago, Montreal or Oakland. And it is the thing that makes Bobby Hull the superstar of his blazing sport. A legion of partisans call him "the Golden Jet" and "Mr. Hockey," regard him as the greatest player of this or any other day-and rare is the expert who says them...
Handlin, an expert on American social history, is the author of--among other words--The Uprooted. He is teaching a course this Spring on the development of the American city and taught a course on American economic history in the Fall...
...graduated from Leningrad's Frunze Academy, the Russian equivalent of Annapolis, four years later. When war broke out, he was the commander of a handful of antiquated cruisers and assorted small craft in the Black Sea. As the German invaders rushed toward the oilfields of the Caucasus, Gorshkov became expert at amphibious operations, plucking trapped Soviet troops from the Crimean coasts and landing them farther eastward to fight again...