Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scheduled in 1959: Mississippi, Kentucky and Virginia, where a special session convened last week to consider only court-ordered integration...
...Most Humble. If anything goes wrong, the engineers at Bhilai are in touch with the Kremlin by special radio within the hour. The Communists have guaranteed all the equipment they have sent, and they have trained 370 Indians in Russian mills. Soviet experts are under strict orders to let trainees handle as much machinery and press as many buttons as they wish. This does wonders for the confidence of young engineers, who say that in German factories they are treated like sightseers...
Japan has long had a special regard for the navel. The shape of the umbilicus of a newborn baby would be discussed at length, and if it happened to point downward, the parents would brace themselves for a weakling child who would bring them woe. The thunder god Raijin, with his terrifying drums, his great horns and long tusks, was said to have an insatiable appetite for young navels, and mothers had constantly to nag their youngsters to keep themselves well covered up. But for all the national preoccupation with it, the navel in Japan never quite achieved the status...
...Rights. Just as Batista had done time and again, the rebels casually whacked away at the Cuban constitution. They denied the right of habeas corpus to Batista underlings awaiting trial for "war crimes" (thus permitting unlimited detention without the posting of charges), repealed a ban on the creation of special courts...
...that physics does not a prison make. One 14-year-old boy on a Colorado ranch races forth before the show to catch it on his school TV set miles away. When the show conflicted with their devotions, the sisters in a Midwest convent switched their Mass time by special permission of the Mother House...