Word: inspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sure of a long stay, the actors began looking for permanent places to live. Irving Barnes, chief understudy, went to inspect a flat. "Sorry," said the landlady, "I won't rent to a Negro. You people don't know how to take care of other people's property." Joe Crawford tried to find a flat by telephone. The agent asked his nationality. "I said American," said Crawford, "and the agent told me to come on out and see it. When I got there, the landlady took one look and said it was rented...
...hope was lucky. A small girl of about five, in blue linen trousers with cross-over braces behind and a bib in front, had just come to inspect the laurel bushes. She squatted down and peered into them, probably in search of a hidy-hole. Her expression was, however, disinterested, even bored. She seemed to be performing a duty rather than a pleasure. Now, hearing the cry of "naughty," she started up, looked round the corner of the bush and saw the baby. At once she started forward and, repeating "Naughty! naughty! naughty!" all the way in exactly the nurse...
There is no better locale for a Graduate School housing office than Farlow House, administrative center of the Graduate School itself. Established there and staffed with a couple more secretaries, the office could cope with both its rentors and landladies. After thirteen years, the office could once more inspect Cambridge rooms, keeping a watchful eye on landladies who discriminate against colored and foreign students. In these and other ways, a better-placed, better staffed housing office could make the job of finding a home more personalized and efficient...
General Matthew B. Ridgway flew to Turkey to inspect the easternmost outpost of his NATO command. He conferred with the U.S. military mission in Ankara, inspected units of the tough, well-trained Turkish army, and journeyed to Turkey's mountain frontier with Russia. There, General Ridgway looked around with the help of a B.C. scope...
...Allies caught on to this trick; but 25 years after, in World War II, the Germans were still using the boiled-egg device. The British, on the other hand, depended so much on their brilliant powers of improvisation that they often neglected the simplest details. Pinto, who used to inspect British agents before they were parachuted into enemy territory, was pained to find one of them wearing a tie labeled: "Selfridges, Oxford Street, London...