Word: specializer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, Cordell Hull had "no special festivities" (but a flock of telegrams from the world's great) on his 78th birthday, his first outside Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital in four years...
...Alternative. Except in some special cases, a worker lost all his credit in the company-financed pension fund unless he stayed with the company until he was 65 (or 60, if he had 30 years' service). If he quit his job before that (e.g., after 20 years' service), he was left with nothing but his Social Security...
...accomplish its mid-century task the [J.E.A. will make use of "all worthy and effective methods by which the Christian Gospel is brought to men." Among them: the training of an estimated two million laymen to go forth two-by-two ringing doorbells, special ministers' meetings in all important cities and communities, the organization of missions on college and senior high-school campuses, speeches and sermons by churchmen from other lands -England's Bishop Stephen Neill, China's T.Z. Koo, Mexico's Baez-Camargo, Scotland's J. Hutchison Cockburn, India's E. Stanley Jones...
...practically at our doorstep"). If he doesn't take her off some place for some dancing and probably a couple of drinks, she can keep him on her campus, sit with him on a bench by the lake, or even take him to class. If she takes her "special" to Tupelo Point three times and he still hasn't proposed, she can, according to tradition, throw him into Lake Waban...
Like the Freudians, the Pavlovians have their own special jargon. In the words of the founder: ". . . All the highest nervous activity . . . consists of a continual change of these three fundamental processes- excitation, inhibition and disinhibition." Everything good is excitatory; everything inhibitory (in the Freudian jargon, repression) is bad-it deprives a man of self-confidence. Says Salter: "The happy person does not waste time thinking. Self-control comes from no control at all ... The inhibitory think, without acting, 'and-delude themselves into believing that they are highly civilized types ... All people whose good manners are noticeable are excessively inhibited...