Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gaitskell accused Butler of deliberately misleading Britons with his talk of Tory prosperity. "Always an expert on evasion, he has become an addict of the easy half-truth." The Socialist's peroration was one of the bitterest personal attacks the House of Commons has heard since the Churchill-Bevan feuds. "I bear [the Chancellor] no personal animosity,'' Gaitskell said. "But his record in this past year is frankly deplorable . . . He began in folly, he continued in deceit, and he has ended in reaction . . . Let him go to the Prime Minister and . . . lay down the burden...
...Army medics were confident that they had most of the answers to the first three questions, and had hopes of coping with the fourth. Along the way they had done some astute medical detective work from their 406th Medical General Laboratory in downtown Tokyo, and had pulled in expert virus sleuths from halfway round the world...
...press secretary, Jim Hagerty, unlike some of his predecessors, e.g., F.D.R.'s Steve Early, Harry Truman's Joe Short, is always available to the press. He is a man of huge energy, is happiest when the work load is heaviest. He is respected by reporters as an expert craftsman who knows precisely what newsmen need and will do everything in his power to deliver the goods, e.g., he 'was out of bed by 6 a.m. each day for the first two weeks in Denver to see the President and issue a bulletin in time for the first...
Bearskin Bonus. Other U.S. big-game animals give a sterner test to the hunter's skill and endurance. Hunting moose requires long treks into the wilderness of northern Maine, Minnesota, Montana and Wyoming, and hours of expert calling (with a birchbark horn) to lure the big animals into rifle range. The elk, prized for antlers that often rise 5 ft. over its head, have retreated from the plains into the rugged western mountain ranges. Last year 52,000 elk were bagged by hunters who made the extra effort to go after them...
...good place to start a twenty-month appreciation tour of Boston Jazz spots, but no place for the real fly hipster (expert) who knows that "to have a ball" means simply to enjoy oneself inordinately...