Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flight records, never been in a major accident. This kind of performance encouraged Boeing in its plans to produce a commercial version of the KC-135 (some of which will be in operation by major airlines by the end of the year), and encouraged the Air Force's Special Air Missions squadron to assign three passenger models to Washington for use by the President and other top U.S. dignitaries...
Against the Jungle. New York's police, a force almost as large as two army divisions, had made plans as thorough as an army's offensive. The department was at near peak strength; by special order no more than 12% of personnel would be on vacation at any one time. The remaining 88% turned eyes away from the schools and wintertime haunts, kept watch on the tenement streets and summer hangouts...
...Board of Works bluntly called it "dangerous." In 1832, the year of the great Reform Bill, Earl Grey had to move out of it because it had become uninhabitable, and even Winston Churchill, no man to take a British institution lightly, found it "shaky." Last week, in a special White Paper, Her Majesty's government announced that No. 10 is in worse shape than ever...
...commend these proposals . . . but we advise the Greeks and Turks not to reject them out of hand." And if agreement was reached, added Laborite Jim Callaghan, "we would not seek to overturn it." In the same mood of conciliation, Prime Minister Macmillan noted, "We have of course no special pride of authorship which will make us stick obstinately to this or that detail of the plan. We shall certainly be flexible." Labor did not want to upset the mood by forcing the issue to a vote...
...illegitimate, since they had been "sired in good faith." He conceded that the Prado case got "extremely rare" Vatican consideration. Instead of passing the decision of Lima's ecclesiastical marriage court to the Sacred Roman Rota for final action as is customary, the Pope appointed a special committee of cardinals to review Lima's decision. The deliberations took "several years." In the end, the cardinals' committee approved the annulment...