Word: specialized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been back on the domestic scene, writing the story of U.S. politics, labor-management problems, the economy. A few of his other cover subjects : John L. Lewis, Tom Dewey, Robert Taft, Dean Acheson, Eugene Dennis, Richard Mellon. A fine craftsman and a thoroughly professional journalist, he has a special talent for sizing up his man in his lead paragraph. His cover story on former Speaker of the House Joe Martin (TIME, Nov. 18, 1946) began: "About all that little Joe ever did was brush the flies off the horses' big rumps while his old man did the shoeing. Little...
From a distance it looked like a dull campaign between two dignified, successful and high-minded men. But in New York State's special election for a vacated seat in the U.S. Senate there was the sound of drums. The most emphatic thumps came from the Republican camp. There, looking worried and work-worn, stood John Foster Dulles, the son of a Presbyterian minister, an ex-Wall Street lawyer and an eminent internationalist. He was doing something not to be expected of a Republican candidate of New York...
...Front Porch. First defendant to go to trial was self-assured, balding Coleman A. ("Brownie") Lollar. Lollar operated a scuttle-sized coal mine. He had also been a special deputy sherriff...
Princeton won't give students telephones without special permission; it band bars in dormitory rooms; it expels people for keeping cars closer than home: theoretically, a man from Los Angeles can't park an auto in Carson City...
...announcing the receipt of the gift, President Conant reported that the Corporation had decided to study the entire field of applied sciences and engineering. Conant has already appointed a special committee of scientists and businessmen from outside the University to conduct this study. The group has begun its work toward the preparation of a private report for the President...