Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Fields of study at the special session would include international relations, cultures of Rrica, and American social history...
...early days of American newspapers, if a big news story broke late or the editor wished to give it special emphasis, he ran it under the caption "Extraordinary Intelligence." As time went on, this cumbersome phrase was reduced to the simple word extra, came to mean a special edition to report some late-breaking, important news...
...this latter sense TIME was justified in calling its special edition an Election Extra...
...onetime Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Retired Judge (U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals) Learned Hand (who in October withdrew from the commission because of illness); Clark Kerr, president of the University of California; James R. Killian Jr., chairman of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and onetime special assistant to President Eisenhower for science and technology; George Meany, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. These members had the help of 14 experts, who in turn drew on the recommendations of about 100 specialists in various fields...
...quality of his tough decisions: alone or in tandem with fellow Fifth Circuit judges, Wisdom has outlawed a Louisiana law that forbade Negroes to participate in sports events with whites, and ruled unconstitutional another Louisiana law requiring the N.A.A.C.P. to reveal its membership lists. Last year, serving on a special three-judge federal court, Wisdom defended the legality of the Civil Rights Commission's investigative procedures, although the other two judges voted against him. The Supreme Court later upheld Wisdom's dissent...