Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laboratory for a reading 24 hours afterward, researchers at the Navy's Radioisotope Laboratory in Bethesda, Md. now find that all the patient need do is swallow a glass of water containing a minute amount of radioactive iodine and sit around for an hour until the technician comes with the scintillation counter...
Digging Deeper. Periodically Pianist Katchen returned to his homeland for a recital. "My technique," says Katchen. "caused many critics to classify me as strictly a virtuoso; a technician who is able to race brilliantly through Liszt Rhapsodies and Chopin Etudes." As recently as 1951, Manhattan critics felt that he had plenty of speed but not enough depth, and Julius returned to his Left Bank apartment in Paris and more Euro pean appearances...
...would have to take back everything he had said in the past. Lindbergh refused, went to work as a civilian consultant to the Ford Motor Co. and United Aircraft, helped in the design of the Navy's Corsair. In 1944 he went to the Pacific as a civilian technician and in the course of six months flew some 50 missions and was unofficially credited with shooting down one Japanese plane...
...Twin-ing's Air Force-in common with the Navy and Army-does not have. "This whole thing could go to hell in two weeks." says Curt LeMay. Why? "People." It takes two years of a four-year enlistment to train a ground-crew chief, engine mechanic, radar technician or flight engineer...
...Belgian rifle had certain advantages over the .280 that less experienced M.P.s might not appreciate. "It has a butt-remember that," he rumbled. "It is very important when one has no ammunition left to have a butt on one's rifle. That does not always occur to the technician"-evoking a vision of the young Churchill swinging a rifle on South Africa's dusty slopes...