Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medal of Honor winners and the honor guards from the four services all snapped smartly to attention as the President, acting "on behalf of a grateful people," placed a Medal of Honor upon each flag-covered casket. In this sparse ritual honoring two men whose particular names are "known but to God,'' a democracy paid tribute to the courage of the assorted millions who fought for its freedoms. And in respect for all those who died in that service, the Unknowns were given burial services by three chaplains, in Latin by the Roman Catholic, English by the Protestant...
...characteristics of one person can be transferred to the reproductive cells of another person. Looking far ahead, Rostand anticipates a time "when each human infant could receive a standard DNA that would confer the most desirable physical and intellectual characteristics. Such children will not be the offspring of a particular couple, but of the entire species...
...Madison Avenue's Charles Hendrickson Brower, 56, president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, last week summed up what is wrong with the U.S. salesman, and perhaps the whole U.S. economy. Adman Brower told the National Sales Executives' convention in Washington that Americans in general and salesmen in particular have forgotten that work can be fun-and so they are not working hard...
This authority is the particular aspect of the case which is being investigated by the law firm of Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge, and Rugg, which handles legal matters for the University...
Included in these last four outs were two legs before wickets, and catches by Keith Lowe and captain Mansoor Ali. Lowe's in particular was spectacular as he made a diving catch of the ball inches off the ground as it had come fast off the bat of Nigel Anthony...