Word: dot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lunch at home with his wife is a leisurely, almost time-wasting meal, in a spacious dining room from whose walls handsome young Lieut. Lee looks down. At 2 :30 sharp he is in bed. At 3 (he wakes himself almost on the dot) he begins his "second day." From his attic bedroom he steps into his study for 2½ solid hours of work on Washington. Here visitors, and even his family, are forbidden. On the walls are autographed pictures of his friends Winston Churchill and Admiral Nimitz, a letter from President Roosevelt thanking Freeman for suggesting the term...
...feet, 18 miles away, Search Scope picked up a moving white dot. It was a C-47 from the U.S. Air Force's Berlin airlift. Carefully watching the calibrations which told him the plane's altitude, speed and distance, the G.I. at Search Scope called over his microphone to the pilot: "Calling Easy Charlie three nine ... You will descend 500 feet a minute ... Fly two five seven degrees...
...stocky man with a halo of electric white hair, dressed in a light blue suit and tie and white shirt, fiddled nervously with his glasses and papers, looked frequently at his watch. On the dot of 4 p.m., David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of the Jewish state, banged the table with his fist and began to read. As he reached the words proclaiming "the establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be called Israel,"* the audience cheered and wept. In the two hours that remained before sundown, when the Jewish Sabbath would begin, Tel Aviv's jubilant...
...story back to a senior editor for further work; he may okay it unchanged. More often, he makes his own changes, fills the margin ' with suggestions, questions and cautionary comments. The copy then goes to the researchers for checking. Charged with verifying every word, they put a dot over each one to signify that they have. Their more important job is to make sure that the story as a whole adds up; sometimes every statement in a story may be true and yet the story as a whole give a false impression. In this process the researchers confer with...
Finally at two o'clock on the dot a car pulled up to unload five "fools," one rooster, one hen, one pig, one heifer, one dog, one goat, and one skunk. The crowd surged up Plympton Street, through the main gate, up the steps of Widener, in the front door, and through the reading room, band, animals, and enlookers which by this time included most of the Cambridge Latin student body...