Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic opponent, Congressman Clair Engle, hopped from one airport to the next in a red and blue Cessna 310. G.O.P. Gubernatorial Hopeful William Fife Knowland flew out from Washington for a picnic in Riverside County, and his womenfolk bussed from Los Angeles to San Diego in their "Bill Knowland Special...
...civil airways below 25,000 ft.-later reduced to 20,000 ft., 2) prohibited jet penetration swoops from high to low altitudes through civil airways. Exception: emerency jet-bomber and fighter "scrambles," which would be continued whenever necessary for the national defense. Said the President's special assistant for aviation affairs, retired Air Force General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada: "We can have some of this in effect within a few days...
ZILS & Rubles. Comrade academicians, the majority of whom are not even party members, eat at special restaurants, whiz about in big, two-tone ZILS, spend their summers at a Black Sea Riviera resort of their own, are allowed to subscribe to any foreign publications they please and to buy luxury goods denied others. By Russian standards, their salaries are princely; Nesmeyanov makes 30,000 tax-free rubles ($7,500) a month, besides thousands more for teaching, lecturing, appearing on TV or writing books. Even after an academician dies, his privileges continue. His widow may get a pension and a lump...
...National Assembly humbly approved a motion expressing gratitude to the army for services it had rendered France "under the flag of the Republic." This farce had been scarcely played out when the Deputies went on to vote 473 to 93 in favor of giving Pflimlin special powers in Algeria-powers which Pflimlin blandly promised to delegate to General Raoul Salan, commander of the rebellious Algerian army...
...life lay smothering under a blanket of religious orthodoxy that considered everything non-Russian as heresy and the work of such men as Copernicus as "the craft of the Devil.'' The first academicians were mostly from the West, but whether Russian or not, they soon acquired the special place in society that they hold today. Though a practical man, Czar Peter fully realized the value of research that might not bring immediate benefits. As a result, from the days of the early academy's great all-round genius Mikhail Lomonsov -poet, pioneer physical chemist, physicist, reformer...