Word: specialized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...representative was selected under a section in the Council's constitution which allows for the appointment as members of up to three undergraduates who have "outstanding ability, special skills, or particular knowledge complemenary to the function of the Council...
With Taillefer admittedly guilty and awaiting sentence (maximum penalty: seven years on each charge), the full story of his part in Montreal's drug traffic could be told. The Mounties had known about it since last spring when a special narcotics squad, posing as dope addicts and peddlers, filtered into the city's underworld. Their hunt for higher-ups led them to Ste.-Madeleine's parish in the suburb of Outremont and to the 40-year-old curate...
Last week when Denise, along with other lucky French youngsters who had passed their bac, went job hunting, they would find the "slip of paper" still rated special consideration...
...Ichabod Disney gets only one chance to exploit his special talents. The midnight chase through a clutching, echoing forest, with the gangling, lily-livered schoolmaster in full flight before the Headless Horseman, is a skillful blend of the hilarious and the horrible. It is Disney at his facile best. The rest of the story, dealing with quaint, legendary people, is flat and prosaic. Katrina might have popped out of a newspaper comic strip; Brom Bones looks like a Catskill country cousin of Li'l Abner...
...week, Pegler told about it in an off-form column without a single word of abuse for anybody: "I felt a little bashful, a little estranged . . . wondering whose feelings I might hurt ... by failing to recognize him on the instant . . . and a little sad, too . . . Unquestionably, the champions are special. There is a style and a look to them. They wear greatness as a habit...