Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verdant grounds is enough to stir the most prosaic of imaginations. The English poets eulogized the effect a long time ago and the sensation has not worn thin. But at Settignano, a few miles from the riches of Florence, there is to be found a villa of very special spiritual proportions. It is I Tatti, the home of Bernard Berenson...
...mortally hate and fear De Gaulle and consider the Place de la Republique their own parade ground, the government took such zealous security measures that the ceremony was robbed of all spontaneity and enthusiasm. More than 4,000 police ringed the square; and only about 10,000 Gaullists with special invitations were permitted near the speakers' platform. Away back, behind an imposing network of steel barricades manned by police and young Gaullist strongmen, were less-favored citizens of Paris-some 70,000 of them...
Entering Valley Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pa., Plebe Simeon Rylski, 21, turned out for the 6 a.m. reveille, swept under his bunk, stood inspection, asked no special regard as Simeon II, exiled King of Bulgaria...
...after day they came, sloshing through England's summer rain, jamming the road from London to the Surrey town of Lingfield with so many cars that the Automobile Association had to put up special yellow signs marking the way. What they came to see-retired army officers, shopkeepers, typical British families in holiday clothes-was a rectangular building faced with white Portland stone and topped by a spire sheathed in lead-coated copper: the London Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first Mormon temple to be built in Britain...
...worn by Moslem men. Dizzy's version was given to him by Omar Mohallim Mohamed, recent special representative at the U.N. from Italian Somaliland...