Word: specialized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss know what his man was saying? Obviously he did, and presumably Sawyer had his blessing. That did not mean that Harry Truman would hesitate to plaster the "special interests" with fresh taunts if politics dictated. It did mean that like many successful politicians, Harry Truman was capable of contradictions within himself, and of trying to run in two directions at once. It also suggested that the Fair Deal was proposing a guarded and perhaps temporary truce. Business would remain wary. But in what often seemed a friendless world, a pat on the head was better than a savagely aimed...
Robert A. Taft and the townspeople of Ottawa, Ohio (pop. 2,400) had a date to meet one night this week in the county courthouse. It was something of a special occasion-Ottawa was the last stop on the Senator's 100-day politicking tour of his home state. Election day was still nearly a year away, but Taft was taking no chances, knowing that organized labor planned to spend millions in an effort to oust him from the U.S. Senate. Toting a spare suit and a few extra shirts and socks, the Senator had traveled through...
...military occupation ever since the Arab-Jewish war in Palestine ended over a year ago. Between the Arab-held Old City and the Israeli-held New City, lies a narrow no man's land cluttered with shell-torn ruins. Only the foolhardy would cross the narrow strip without special permission from both sides...
...game called TATE & STATE. Each of Tate's dice has one of the letters S T A t E and a portrait of Mr. Cube on one of its six sides. The rules of play are like those of plain poker dice except for two special conditions. Anyone throwing Mr. Cube and T-A-t-E has achieved "free enterprise" and wins. Anyone throwing S-T-A-t-E reaches "stagnation" and automatically loses...
Arkansas' Governor Sidney McMath, 37, arrived in Manhattan to confer a special honor of his state, the title "Arkansas Traveler," on a Center Point, Ark. girl: department store Bigwig Dorothy Shaver, president of Fifth Avenue's Lord & Taylor...