Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joke. Hoover fished and tossed medicine balls with members of the Cabinet and the Supreme Court. Franklin Roosevelt and John Quincy Adams swam for their health. George Washington preferred riding. Jefferson detested all exercise, relaxed with his violin. Theodore Roosevelt, the most active President, was an enthusiastic wrestler, jujitsu expert, big-game hunter, tennist, horseman and boxer. One of his favorite forms of exercise was point-to-point hiking, which sometimes involved swimming Rock Creek or the Potomac River. "If we swam the Potomac," T.R. recalled in his autobiography, "we usually took off our clothes. I remember one such occasion...
Goose Feet & Clumsy Bears. Last week, at an All-Union Conference of Trade Operatives in Moscow's Hall of Columns, Consumer Goods Expert Mikoyan. who runs the Internal Trade Ministry, predicted that in three or four years' time the Soviet masses will have twice as much clothing as they have today, eat twice as much fish and meat, cook in four times as many shiny new pots and pans. There will be more sausages for boiling, better meat cutlets, and, for the "little Soviet consumer," a most splendid assortment of "well-wrapped candies: prozrachnaya (fruit drops), gusinye lapki...
Hamburg was a dying city when cragfaced Socialist Max Brauer returned in 1946. The mayor of Altona, a Hamburg suburb, he had fled Germany 13 years before, a jump ahead of the Storm Troopers, winding up in the U.S., where he became German expert for the American Federation of Labor...
...brigand. In one delightful scene a former lover deters him from a robbery with a school-teacher-type lecture. He switches from bravado to bashfulness with aplomb and later in numerous slapstick scenes, he cavorts about the set with admirable grace. In all, he demonstrates that he is an expert actor of convincing versatility, and also, that he cannot sing...
...expert on the Far East, having just returned from a year in the Orient, Fairbank held little hope for any basic agreement with Mao, or admission of China into the United Nations at the present time...