Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal extended the expiration period to 24 months, beginning last June, when the recession was a pup. It provided a flat 16 weeks of federal payments, regardless of state compensation laws. It specified that the states need not repay the Federal Government. And to it, committee Democrats added a special fancy fillip: eligibility would be extended beyond the 3,400,000 workers now covered to include 900,000 seasonal workers, fishermen, government employees and the like who do not qualify for compensation under present regulations. Total estimated cost in unrecoverable funds: $1.5 billion to $2 billion...
...onions instead of the traditional wine ration because "wine reduces stamina." With all-night marches and sudden paratroop raids, he won every engagement, became so successful at outwitting the rebels ("He thinks like a fellagha," says one of his officers) that the army put him in charge of a special school which next month will begin to give French officers intensive training in combatting "subversive war." Last week the French army let out one chapter in Bigeard's career that hitherto had been kept secret-the cloak-and-dagger tale of how he, in effect, became commander...
...slumped to the sidewalk, wounded in face, chest, abdomen and hand. The gunman fired a sixth shot and disappeared among the shoppers. The victim, who died a short while later, was a man especially disliked by EOKA terrorists: William Dear, 61-year-old police interrogator of the Special Branch. He was the first Englishman killed since the Greek Cypriot underground declared its truce 13 months...
...Under a special ruling allowing him "to submit his views," Yazid eloquently pleaded the F.L.N. case. Sample exchange...
...addition, two and possibly three Crimson runners will enter a special event, the 400 meter hurdles. Dave Rosenthal and Liles are definite entries, will Joel Landau a possibility...