Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special interest in the Democrats v. Nixon contests was the fact that Tennessean Kefauver did as well in the Midwest, where he is still regarded as the farmers' friend, as in the South, which regards him as a civil libertarian. Massachusetts Catholic Kennedy trailed Nixon in the East, the Midwest and the Far West, picked up his entire advantage in the South, whose friendship he has been careful to cultivate, e.g., by his recent vote for the jury-trial amendment on the Senate's civil rights bill...
...there seemed little if any doubt that Adenauer was going to win it (whether his party as a whole would win a majority or merely a plurality was the real question). The man most determined to erase any doubt was peppery, spartan Chancellor Adenauer himself. By motorcar and by special, five-car diesel train, Konrad Adenauer was campaigning with the verve and enthusiasm of a man half his age, and the knowledge that his age is one of the few effective arguments his opponents have against him. In Celle, citizens looked on delightedly while Adenauer skipped up the steps...
...Minister of Information refused to specify the charges against the other two, Ashanti leaders of the Moslem Association Party, "since then they could challenge them." When they appealed to the courts to prevent their deportation, Nkrumah rushed through Parliament (where he controls 71 of 104 seats) a special bill authorizing their immediate expulsion, even though they were citizens of Ghana. Within two hours they were aboard a plane for Nigeria...
...wandering again. Well, finally, I guess I was around twelve, the principal at the school paid a call on my family, and told them that in his opinion I was 'subnormal.' He thought it would be the humane action to send me to some special school equipped to handle backward brats. Whatever they may have privately felt, my family as a whole took official umbrage, and pronto packed me off to a psychiatric study clinic where I had my IQ inspected. I enjoyed it thoroughly and-guess what?-came home a genius, so proclaimed by science. My former...
...networks were so busy this week preening themselves for their big fall showings that they all but forgot about the dreary ruins of summer. From a distance, the 1957-58 schedule promised TV's most Special Spectacular season...