Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once you've been here," Paul Siple sums it up, "there's something a little special about you-everyone feels it, and so do you. I think this may be what draws people down here, and even though they hate it, they feel it's worth buying with a little time and a little discomfort. It will last them a lifetime...
...Dear Comrade." Some crucial questions were still to "be determined by special agreement." One: Who will pay for the support of the troops? In Moscow last month Gomulka had indicated that the Russians had agreed to shoulder all expenses. Another question concerned the number, deployment and movement of Soviet units into and out of the country. Gomulka had already agreed that six Russian divisions should stay on in Poland "protecting the sanctity of the Oder-Neisse line," but during the October crisis the Russians had moved in a reported five extra divisions. Presumably, the Poles were negotiating to get them...
...rich, petty aristocrat in a ceremony attended by King Louis XV and his Queen. Five months later he was arrested in a local bordello, and convicted of "outrageous debauchery," by a regime that considered ordinary debauchery routine. King Louis XV himself ordered him to prison and accorded no special privileges...
...chairmen of both major national party committees, Republican Leonard Hall and Democrat Paul M. Butler, found themselves in a state of rare agreement. Butler told a special House committee studying lobbying and campaign activities that televiewers were bored sick by the torrent of campaign oratory that flooded their TV screens this year. Appearing before the same sitting solons two days later, Chairman Hall allowed: "You can saturate television with too much politics." Hall cited his proof-a welcome harbinger of less saturation in campaigns to come: political broadcasts win "very very low" audience ratings unless the speakers are candidates...
...successive over-.300 seasons. But for upwards of $30,000, plus a journeyman left-handed pitcher, the sixth-place Giants bought one of baseball's alltime great figures, a pro good enough to make his mark in the record books while carrying a blackman's special burden on his back...