Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cops who overpowered the gunman had no trouble identifying him: he was a ballistics specialist on the force before being sacked last year. Dunbar was also, it seemed, a member of the Independent True Whig Party, which lost out to Tubman's True Whig Party in the elections last month. Police rounded up 28 opposition-party stalwarts and set out to find David Coleman, their national chairman. At Coleman's rubber farm 30 miles from Monrovia, the posse was greeted with a volley of machine-gun fire. Two of the expedition were killed, four others wounded. The cops...
...from 160 Ibs., to an overblown 170, Middleweight Champion Carl ("Bobo") Olson, 26, was a good little man, ambitious but amenable. One steamy evening last week, 27,431 fans plunked down $206,784 at New York's Polo Grounds to learn whether Challenger Olson, no knockout specialist, could outlast 2-to-1 Favorite Moore. After 19 hectic years in the ring, 143 professional bouts, Moore had already designated (in paid newspaper ads) his target for Bout No. 145: Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano...
...Lies, damned lies and statistics." Thus, only last week, the A.M.A.'s incoming President Elmer Hess, an Erie (Pa.) kidney and bladder specialist, had characterized much of the hard-won information on the subject of smoking and cancer. This week Dr. Hess-a smoker himself-was to hear some hard facts on the subject at A.M.A.'s convention in Atlantic City. Reason for the convention's preoccupation: lung cancer now causes around 24,000 deaths a year in the U.S., which puts it in the category of epidemic diseases...
...Clair, a trial specialist, will probably handle most of the cross-examining and will make most of the decisions on how best to present evidence to convince a jury and to form a clear record in case of an appeal...
...specialist in comparative neuro-physiology, Walsh has been with the University since 1929 and served as chairman of the department of Biological Sciences from...