Word: linguistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Handsome, ramrod-straight Air Lieut. General Thomas D. (Tommy) White, 51, was picked to succeed General Twining as vice chief of staff. He is a linguist (five languages), an amateur ichthyologist, a notably competent officer and a good airman, but his most enduring fame stems from a bad landing which he made on a Leningrad airstrip in 1934. As U.S. air attache in Russia, West Pointer White flew Ambassador Bill Bullitt from Mos cow to Leningrad in a two-place Douglas O-38F, found he had no power as he came in to land. The plane hit the runway, nosed...
...Czech capital Jakobson built his reputation as a linguist and his researches resulted in scores of important monographs. He mixed crudite dissertations with vitriolic polemic against the rising Nazi Party. Later, when the Germans invaded his adopted country, Jakobson, who was then living in Brno, became a refugee for the second time. "Few people knew the Germans were going to invade the next morning," he says. "The news was announced on the radio and we left Brno for Prague the same night. This time we didn't walk, however, for there was no time. I had to burn my valuable...
...international linguist and balalaika virtuoso washes pots in the Union...
TEACHERS FIRED FOR DEFENDING FREEDOM in New York schools seek employment or business opportunities. Research workers, economists, linguist, scientist, mathematicians, artist, writers, tutors, office workers. Mature, graduate degrees. Will consider employment any field offering opportunity, growth and advancement...
From any other boy of ten, the letter might have sounded fantastic, but not from young John Acton. "I am a perfect linguist," he wrote his mother one day in 1844, "knowing perfectly . . . English, French, German, and can almost speak Latin. I can speak a few words of Chinese, Greek, Italian, Spanish, and Irish. I also know Chemistry, Astronomy, Mechanics, and many other sciences, but do not know botany ... I am in a hurry, therefore good...