Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stupid nor incompetent; they simply lack the scientific background to make decisions for themselves. The services actually object to giving high rank to their scientific personnel. It nearly took an act of Congress to promote naval engineering expert Hyman Rickover from captain to admiral last year. Rickover is a specialist, and the Navy, as well as the Army and Air Force, insists that its brass be trained in the line, not the laboratory...
John N. D. Bush, professor of English, commented, "The early death of Dylan Thomas means the loss of a richly individual poet. He was both erratic and inspired, but at his best he had a rare intensity of vision and bardic prodigality of utterance." Bush is a specialist in 16th and 17th century poetry...
...Harold K. Rain, 30, a former Army private, was sentenced in Cincinnati to three years in jail for posing as a physician. As "Dr. Samuel P. Hall," he had practiced in seven states, performing major surgery and winning a reputation in Stephenville, Texas as a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics. The law did not catch up with Rain until he went to a magazine editor and tried to sell the story of his masquerade. Said the judge: "You are a menace to the public...
Added Market Specialist Phil Hedrick of the North Carolina agriculture department: "It's defensive advertising that's doing it. A medical authority says, for instance, that there is a high incidence of lung cancer among heavy smokers, and immediately the tobacco companies rush to the defense. Instead of saying that cigarettes relax you, comfort you and soothe the nerves, they deny that their brand will give you a disease . . . TV has made it much worse. They blow smoke in a test tube and all that sort of stuff. It looks as if they're putting tobacco...
Partly because their specialty is relatively new and fast gaining in importance, the anesthesiologists have none of the stuffy dignity of the oldtime, frock-coated specialist. They talk freely and colloquially about their work, often lapsing into unprofessional profanity. They have something good and they know...