Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back to Work Special" trains they trooped into Washington's Union Station: men in open-necked sports shirts, women in spring prints, many wearing blue and white badges marked "A.F.L.-C.I.O. Conference on Unemployment-Jobs for All." Already, some members of the Toledo delegation were looking slightly green; something they had eaten aboard their train soon laid 100 of them low, sent 28 to hospitals. Ohio's Republican Congressman William Hanes Ayres of Akron was on hand at the depot with coffee, doughnuts, and a sign saying: SEE YOUR CONGRESSMAN FIRST. HE CAN HELP YOU MOST...
...lota." Within 24 hours, the sensational news had swept across Germany. The old Chancellor, before boarding a special railway car for Italy, recorded a bitter little speech to his countrymen. It contained an odd digression. Lashing out at British "wire-pullers" almost as if the British forced him to the step, he conceded that the decision had been made "quickly-but I must say in retrospect that it was well considered and correct. My decision is intended to ensure the continuity of our policy for years to come. The position, task and work of the federal President is underestimated...
...they are hired for. Last week Ava and Frankie were in Australia, she on location for her movie On the Beach, he for a concert engagement. Yet even their well-known aversion to crowds and the press could not keep the Aussies at a distance. The result was something special, even by Hollywood standards...
...Sudden as a quick kick, smiling Eddie Erdelatz quit as Navy's football coach after futilely protesting the number of restrictions on his team (e.g., the cancellation of special pre-term classes). He left behind a sparkling nine-year record of 50 wins v. 26 defeats, and a scramble for one of the game's best jobs...
...Opera. In a rococo salon near Paris, the six main figures sit chatting for the whole of one golden, 18th century afternoon-a Count and Countess, a Musician and a Poet, a Director and an Actress. The Poet and the Musician, both in love with the Countess, plead their special skills ("The poetic spirit is the mirror of the world!" sings the Poet; "The sounds of nature sing at the cradle of the arts!" replies the Musician). The Director scorns both their arts: "Production is the solution . . . Eloquent gestures, lifelike expressions-basic principle...