Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Entering students are required to take a proficiency test in physical ability. Those passing the test are allowed to elect any activity offered in the large athletics program, while those who fail are assigned to special exercise classes. Organized sports range from table tennis to wrestling, and expert coaching is available to all students. A recent trend has been towards increased emphasis on golf, tennis, and other sports considered useful after college...
...presidential race cannot be separated from the startlingly close senatorial contests. Expert Hartford observers are predicting that whichever presidential candidate takes the state will carry in either Purtell or Benton with him. In 1948 Dewey took the state with but 1,000 more than Truman and Wallace combined. This year the Progressive threat is negligible, and the state is basking in the sunny prosperity given to its factories by defense contracts. Unemployment is non-existent. Furthermore, Stevenson has an appeal to the state's comparatively-high number of college graduates that Truman lacked. It's going to be tight...
Resources. Truman, whom Ike referred to as an "expert in political demagoguery," had conducted the people "through an underworld of imaginary devils," charging that the Republicans wanted to wreck development of natural resources, irrigation and power projects. Nonsense, said Eisenhower. Many of these projects had been started by the Republican 80th Congress, which Truman calls the "worst." The Republicans, said Ike, want to safeguard a measure of local control over the projects instead of surrendering all to "whole-hog Federal Government...
...Communism. If not actually supported by Chancellor Adenauer's government, BDJ was benevolently regarded as a West German answer to the East zone's 2,000,000-strong Communist Freie Deutsche Jugend. It practiced direct action; it had a knack for breaking up Communist meetings and was expert at exposing the sheeplike West German businessmen who clandestinely supported the Reds as "just in case" insurance...
...expert on football, and perhaps there will be explanations forthcoming, but I do not understand why Captain Nichols had to be rushed into the game on defense when Washington was threatening to reduce by one Harvard's several touchdown lead late in the game, why Nichols had to be in on the kick-off with Harvard leading 35 to 0, why Clasby, O'Neill, and Ederer were all in the backfield with the score...