Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Special police details turned out to maintain order. But they didn't have to work at it. There were no commotions, serious incidents or even any cat-calls--only the usual loud chatter of bubbling teen-agers...
...diplomacy, a chapter that brought important modifications of longstanding U.S. nuclear policy with hardly a word of public debate. It began in 1957-58, when the Russians whipped up a new storm of propaganda against nuclear tests as a hazard to health and wholesome genetics. The Communists got special plaudits from neutralists in Asia and Africa, from U.S. pacifists and idealists, when the U.S.S.R. announced in March 1958 that it was suspending tests. At one point, Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge warned Secretary Dulles that the U.S. was in danger of losing its majority at the U.N. unless...
...pressing need, as George Washington Principal Henry T. Hillson and others interested in the experiment see it, is to begin special programs for children at the very start of their education. If the school board gets the $500,000 it wants from the city, and perhaps another $500,000 from foundations, guidance programs will be set up beginning in elementary school and continuing right on to high school graduation...
...intelligent boy especially strong in math, John Thomas also runs the hurdles for fun, throws the javelin 150 ft., has put the shot 45 ft. with no special practice. What bothers him most is pre-jump nervousness. "The moment I fear is just standing there waiting to go." He used to cover his ears as the loudspeaker announced the jump he was about to attempt. When he broke his own record in the Knights of Columbus meet in Boston (where he first ran the hurdles -"It loosens me up"), Thomas did it during the climax of the big mile race...
...chief political argument of the year concerns defense and the budget, the chief economic argument is about inflation. Last week, echoing his stern budget-message warning, President Eisenhower set up a special Cabinet committee to study the extent to which inflation is heightened by Government spending and federal activities...