Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Rancho Mil Condones in the state of Mexico, a sweating vaquero roped a bawling steer out of a herd and tethered it to a fence post. While a U.S. livestock inspector examined the beast's mouth, a Mexican technician shaved a spot on its hide, injected 2 cc of vaccine and clipped a tag to its ear. The two men were agents of the Mexico-U.S. commission for the eradication of foot-and-mouth disease, known in Spanish as aftosa. They were winding up the last series of injections in a three-year campaign to rid Mexico...
...Technician of Order. When Wu returned to China in 1926, Sun Yat-sen was dead. Vast areas of the country were bitterly contested by warlords with their private armies and by Nationalist revolutionaries. The best of the Nationalists, Chiang Kaishek, Sun's disciple, set out from Canton at the head of a revolutionary army on his famous Northern Expedition to quell the warlords. Young Nationalist K. C. Wu tried to join Chiang's army. He was rejected with the explanation: "You are too educated...
...20th Century brought chaos to China (and to most of Asia) as a habitual way of life. K. C. Wu-a technician of order who was also a democrat and a Christian-had begun his career of fighting chaos...
...first, a 44-year-old chemical technician named Alfred Dean Slack, was arrested ashe left his automobile in a parking lot to report for work at the Sundure Paint Corp. in Syracuse, N.Y. His friends were as astounded as the friends of Harry Gold had been only two weeks before. Slack, a big, rugged-looking man, had been known as a solid citizen, who worked hard to support his wife and two children, a provider who had licked the housing shortage by building his family a suburban cottage with his own hands...
...young musicians found that, as a conductor, aging Pablo Casals had no particular "technique of discipline." Said one: "He cannot enliven or discipline a bored technician. He is a conductor for real musicians. You give as much...