Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Design of the new flag: seven staggered rows of seven white stars set in a blue canton within the field of 13 alternate red and white stripes. Said the President as he signed: "Well, that is a historic thing." And at ceremony's end he noted to the special guests, Vice President Nixon, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Alaska Senators-elect E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, Ernest Gruening, Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton, that a 50th star-for Hawaii-could be added to the national flag quite simply by putting eight stars in the middle...
...Gaulle was racing against the clock, hustling to reshape French political and economic life before the expiration of the special powers he has exercised since last June. Keenly aware that he will lose the right to legislate by simple decree once he is formally inducted as President this week (see below), De Gaulle spent the last days of his premiership grinding out laws so distasteful to France's vested interests that no government of the Fourth Republic had ever dared to adopt them...
George and Marjorie Button lived a soft and pleasant life in Los Angeles. They owned two Cadillacs, splashed in a heated swimming pool, entertained 1,500 guests a year in their $100,000 house. Five pages of pictures highlighted them as a "lucky" U.S. family in LIFE'S "Special Issue on the American Woman" (Dec. 24, 1956). They shot elephants in Africa, spent holidays in Hawaii, toured the Holy Land, knocked about Europe...
...good boys here at Kentucky. Every boy in the state, from the time he's born, lives for the day he can play at the university." Once Rupp gets his players, he drills them endlessly and without letup. They live together in the same dormitory, eat a special diet. Practices are conducted in semi-silence, save for an occasional tongue-lashing directed by Rupp at a player who is not giving his all. "Boy," he will holler sarcastically, "give that ball to someone who knows what to do with it." To another: "Go back in the stands and read...
...everywhere in the sand, heaped with fetishes and food offerings, bottles of beer and the rotgut alcohol known as cachaça. Around the altars, while drums pounded faster and faster, men, women and children danced and shouted, stomped and babbled. Yemanjá, goddess of the sea, was the special object of honor; poor families from Rio's slums and evening-clad nightclub patrons waded into the water to toss in offerings-liquor, perfume, jewelry, and thousands of bouquets of white chrysanthemums...