Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...state that this early part of my past left me with an insight I have found useful, both as a historian and as a human being: there are evil people who won't be deterred from their nefarious doings by what might be considered by the self-deceived as special circumstances. His iron cross, first class and all, did not save my father from arrest. The fact that my school had close links with France did not prevent it from getting rid of its Jewish students...
Some of their best work was done with one another, especially classic recordings such as "I Must Have That Man" and "A Fine Romance" from 1937, as well as "Fine and Mellow", the blues tune they played together during a reunion twenty years later on the 1957 CBS-TV special, "The Sound of Jazz...
Barry, 53, was arrested at the hotel shortly after 8 p.m. as a result of an undercover operation conducted jointly by the city police department's internal affairs division and the FBI, according to a statement by U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens and Thomas DuHadway, special agent in charge of the FBI's Washington office. There was no word of additional arrests...
...These special requirements created their own delay. The jet has 57 antennas for its huge array of electronic gear. Normal is 17. The plane's 238 miles of wire is more than twice that in a commercial version. The big delivery delay occurred when Boeing engineers in Wichita, after installing most of the wiring, were worried about electromagnetic interference in such a thicket. They pulled 20% of the wiring out, went on overtime and rerouted the cables. With all the fancy equipment on board, the Federal Aviation Administration imposed special safety requirements that added to the burden. And almost everybody...
...ashamed that I have to revive dark memories and reopen old wounds," said South Korea's former ruler Chun Doo Hwan, finally breaking the silence that followed his retirement in early 1988. Appearing before a special panel of the National Assembly, Chun, 58, accepted "moral responsibility" for the excesses of his seven-year rule. But members of the opposition exploded in protest when Chun denied responsibility for the 1980 deaths of 200 demonstrators in Kwangju and argued that the army had rightfully fired on a crowd. One legislator dashed to the witness stand, grabbed Chun by the arm and shouted...