Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...casualness, President Truman sent up to Capitol Hill one day last week what was potentially one of the hottest political and economic issues Congress has ever had to handle. The President asked Congress to enact a compulsory health-insurance program for most U.S. citizens. Said the President in a special message: "To see that our people actually enjoy the good health that medical science knows how to provide is one of the great challenges to our democracy...
...local newspaper became self-appointed "expediters." Benefit dances and basketball games were held. The committee's zeal was unbounded; they got a lot in a fine residential section and built a $22,000 house with an elevator shaft, ramps for Bob Hoelzle's wheelchair, and special bathroom fixtures...
...alumni raised a total of $544,156, McCord disclosed. Over the last two years a special campaign raised $1,500,000 to endow Lamont Library...
...only one of its kind at the College, the Funsters' extravaganza offers prizes ranging up to champagne for the best male, best female, best couple, and best group. If past tradition is followed--and there seems little reason that it won't--a special prize will go to the least-dressed woman...
Third, the Teachers' Union resolved that "in time when widespread suspicion and organized pressure threaten the independence of university scholars, every effort must be made to preserve the principles of academic freedom, and special effort should be made to avoid stigmatizing or punishing members of the faculty who profess independent or unpopular views...