Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev's principal and most expert job was reconstructing the Ukrainian Communist Party. The old leaders, including his predecessor Stanislav Kossior, were executed, and the membership recast. The new party was a tight, tough instrument of Stalinist policy...
...taking a modest flyer on the Five-and-Six, he country's fabulous Sunday horse-race lottery, based on a five-or six-horse combination. But since they are sheltered girls who find form charts hard to puzzle out they relied mainly on Mercedes' brother Nelson for expert handicapping in last week's races at Caracas' Hipódromo track. With proper humility they accepted his picks for the first four races; then girlish independence took over and they followed feminine intuition in picking the fifth and sixth...
Bill Pearson, 35, a 106-lb. jockey who is an art expert with a leaning toward pre-Columbian primitives, had a tough going-over before he initially appeared on CBS's The $64,000 Question. Like any other promising candidate, he was thoroughly screened. The Question likes candidates to be "attractive TV characters" (i.e., "characters" without being too odd), to display a paradoxical facet of personality (e.g., a cop who likes Shakespeare or a Southerner who digs Lincoln), and to demonstrate a certain expertise in a chosen field of knowledge. For two hours a day on four consecutive days...
Actually, one cannot help but suspect the motives of the Whig-Clio Society in asking Hiss to speak in the first place. While his comments on the Geneva Conference were undoubtedly interesting, his own position at Yalta was so unimportant as to make him anything but an expert on international conferences. More than anything else, Hiss was controversial, and all the hoopla surrounding the speech seems to be exactly what the Whig-Clios bargained...
...trouble. Railroad enthusiasts are much the most genial when they grow older, at the time, as one writer describes them, "they shake down into fine people, jolly and philosophical." Youthful enthusiasts sometimes "ride their hobby too hard, and show off their knowledge of engine parts and other expert insignia with which they hide the hot confusion that is within them...