Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lordly oaks. Jeeps moved around to the rear of the school, parked in a line along practice-football charging machines. Pup tents blossomed in back of the school's tennis courts. Colonel William A. Kuhn, smart and salty, swung a swagger stick as he examined a map of the school grounds...
...state and territorial health officials assembled in Washington last week to map strategy in advance of this winter's expected Asian flu epidemic, Surgeon General LeRoy E. Burney had reassuring news on all fronts...
...less likely than an economic and political quarantining of Syria. But Syria's own trumps are also economic. One thought that gives Western statesmen worry is what would happen if Syria were to cut not only her Iraqi pipelines but also the Tapline route from Saudi Arabia (see map); these pipelines carry one-third of the Middle East's oil output. If Egypt chose to close the Suez at the same time, the West would really...
Alerted by Pierce's pencil, the editors found that their map had somehow lost its bearings entirely. Missouri was where Arkansas should be; West Virginia was labeled Maryland; New Jersey displaced Delaware; Costa Rica had swallowed up Panama. A staff artist had slapped the map together with little care and editors had approved it with less attention. The News was faced with a problem that haunts many an editor: a serious error in an early run section...
...spurs as newly appointed editor of the News, William Baggs, longtime columnist for the paper, turned failure into feature. When the Sunday news section came off the press last week, a Page One box proclaimed: YOU CAN GET CASH BECAUSE WE ERRED. Underneath, the News admitted that the map in that day's magazine section was all wrong, offered the reader who sent in the "largest number of correct corrections" a $50 award. Total number of replies, 1,014, largest number of corrections offered...