Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Underwear. Jammed into quarters that were ludicrously small, with suitcases for desks, the specialists tried to get some order into a parley that had no agenda. Atomic Expert Strauss disappeared almost immediately with Sir Winston's friend and atomic adviser, Lord Cherwell. They went off "to buy some underwear," said an official with a smile...
ALFREDO CARDINAL OTTAVIANI, 63, a sturdy, placid expert in canon law, pro-Secretary of the Holy Office and one of the Vatican's leading reactionaries. He is an advocate of Vatican friendship with Franco...
...climb was the climax of a weekend of skiing and mountain climbing by the Stanford University Alpine Club. In charge was a young (21) but expert mountaineer, Jon Lindbergh, son of the famed flyer and a marine biology student at Stanford. By 12,200 ft., all except Edgar Hopf had switched to spiked crampons. He was still on skis and in the lead when he slipped and tumbled backwards...
Mathematician George Abram Miller never had any children of his own, but his students at the University of Illinois liked to call him "Papa." A stubby, white-thatched little man who always kept a box of nuts handy for the squirrels, he was an expert on the theory of finite groups, published more than 800 learned articles, owned one of the best private mathematical libraries in the U.S. But for all his brilliance, Papa Miller had a distracted air that sometimes seemed complete bewilderment. He was hopeless with a car, helpless with a furnace, and he invariably began his sentences...
...Expert. In Akron, Ohio, arrested for taking $20 from a woman, Walt Chermin told the court: "I wanted it as an excuse to have another date with her," added that he always felt it wise, in dealing with women, "to have something to hold over their heads...