Word: dot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporters of the U.S. and foreign press began gathering sleepily at the State Department. They were handed a little five-page booklet; the text of the North Atlantic Treaty was top secret no longer. The newsmen had two hours to get their questions ready. On the dot of 9 a.m., Secretary of State Acheson, the man who had the answers, faced the reporters...
...customers abroad with all the comforts of home, Trippe is promoting an $80 million chain of eleven tourist hotels. Local capital is financing them, but Pan Am's Intercontinental Hotels Corp., holding a token 1% interest, will run them. Costing $5 to $10 million each, they will dot South America, with more to be built later in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. One in Montevideo is almost finished; others are abuilding in Caracas and Bogot...
...nearly 150 tiny houses which dot the old old Cambridge area were made of Savogran and brass reinforcements on a scale of one inch to 30 feet. Pitman's assistants combined dried seaweed and twisted wire into threes, while grated moss sprayed with paint made realistic earth for the project...
...lantern-jawed singer with baby-doll bangs and a piano player with a floppy polka-dot bow tie opened and closed their mouths like goldfish sending up bubbles from the bottom of a murky aquarium. The sound of their voices was drowned out by the thumping and puffing of six poker-faced young men behind them, who played their instruments with loud, emotionless precision. In the darkness out front several hundred listeners crowded around small tables, stood three deep at the bar, or sat in straight-backed chairs in an upholstered bull pen. On the mirror in the far corner...
...Need a Rudder." At the longer stops, where the candidate made full-dress speeches in auditoriums, the ritual was also unvarying. He swept from the train in a motorcade through mildly curious crowds, arriving at the hall on the dot, striding out on the stage just as the introducer boomed: "I give you the next President of the United States...