Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murray Snyder held another press conference, told the reporters that President Eisenhower had suffered "an occlusion or thrombosis" during the night, and "that he has been comfortable since the initial pain, and the prognosis is good." Colonel Thomas W. Mattingly, chief heart specialist at Walter Reed Army Hospital, he added, was flying from Washington at once, with Press Secretary James Hagerty...
...week's end and gave every promise of growing, as Rio's Jockey Club promised to donate all profits from a Sunday's racing, and Marta Rocha announced plans for a star-studded charity show. Meanwhile, as Bernadete's plight drew national attention, Brazilian Specialist Albert Coutinho offered to perform a drastic, last-chance operation involving removal of the right lung. Bernadete decided against it. "My death," she said, "will be more useful than my life. People will not forget...
Steeped in the common-sense science of the Victorian Age, the public thinks of scientists as dangerous warlocks. "The popular picture of the scientist," says Bronowski, "lends itself to the basic totalitarian tricks which exploit the insecurity of the ignorant: an awe of the specialist, a hidden hatred of him, and a cleft between his way of thinking and theirs...
Building by committee, says Steiger, leads to an undistinguished hash. "Today, when something must be built, a building committee is formed. The committee calls in specialists to work out their incompetent ideas. There's a specialist for concrete, a specialist for electrical engineering, a specialist for air conditioning, and finally what you might call a specialist for esthetics. That's the architect. All he gets to do is present the board with six or seven fagade projects, and the worst is picked...
Though an erudite specialist on the 13th century, Keeney proved early that he was a talented administrator. But more important, he also turned out to be much the same sort of plain-speaker as Henry Wriston. He railed against students who shun controversy for fear of losing some future Government clearance ("If silence is the price of Government service, it is too high a price to pay"), and against scholarly stuffiness ("It must clearly be understood that the scholar does not lose dignity by being intelligible"). He is also a relentless crusader against the growing theory on many U.S. campuses...