Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calles troops were reported to be executing on the spot everyone whom they caught and believed to be one of the assassins. Eight men who were caught red-handed with loot from the train " confessed" ?to exactly what was not stated? and were instantly shot. The only hint at a definite explanation of the bandits' acts was that they thought General Ferreira, Military Commandant of the state of Jalisco, was on the train and wished to murder...
...pond in an automobile when he saw the two boys struggling in the water. He broke through the thin ice near the shore and swam out to them, bringing first one of them to shore and then returning for the other. By the time he had reached the spot for the second time he was forced to dive under the water and bring the second youth to the surface...
...sunny shores of lower Italy. Beneath mystical cypresses and spreading palms, fountains splashed with silver sound, and the scent of many flowers lay upon the air. Sleek and graceful bodies gleamed through the foliage, all at rest yet all poised in the fleetness of arrested motion. It was a spot and a sight created for the pleasure of a multitude, and a multitude, the automobile-loving public of Manhattan and thereabouts, prepared...
...scarcely in a spirit of playfulness that Henry Ford first turned the spot-light onto Mellie Dunham, onetime citizen of Norway, Maine. Nor did he to exploit the slight talents of an old man merely for the sake of kindness. In the clever way of great men, he is pulling the strings behind a stupid venture, quite as unpractical as his unfortunate Peace ship a few years back. He hopes, with Mr. Dunham's aid, to revolutionize the disgraceful state of modern dancing...
...Labor Party of England," he declared, "is a strong advocate of peace. I wish that some central spot could be found in the ocean where all the battleships and war airplanes could be brought together in a gigantic crash...