Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shepards, father & son, know their 18th Century. Odell Shepard, Pulitzer Prize biographer of Bronson Alcott and onetime lieutenant governor of Connecticut, is also an eminent authority on 18th Century English prose and poetry. His son, Willard, is a specialist in early naval history. The Book-of-the-Month Club has made this learned collaboration its choice for April, but it takes a bit of special interest in either the 18th Century or Bonnie Prince Charlie to make up for all the talk in the library...
...Texas Trail. The Chicago syndicate's interests are not confined to horse racing. A hood named Pat Manno, who is vice president of a Chicago auto-sales company, in his spare time, is Accardo's specialist on policy. Manno also travels for the syndicate. The committee confronted him with a wire recording of a conversation he had been trapped into by Dallas' Sheriff Steve Guthrie in 1946. Manno had gone to Texas to see Guthrie, then sheriff-elect, about a "program of horse-booking, slot machines, dice, numbers, everything...
There are 200,000 known cases of muscular dystrophy in the U.S., according to the Bairds' doctor, Dystrophy Specialist Gerald E. Pratt, and probably many more unrecognized sufferers...
...studied geography here as an undergraduate fifty years ago when many schools were neglecting it. Today's College student finds only a handful of courses on the subject. Undergraduate concentration is impossible, and no graduate students want to come here for their Ph.D.'s since Harvard has only one specialist in the field...
...neurologist, Rimrock Annie now says admiringly: "He was a specialist. And no real specialist could be fooled...