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Word: spottedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The scouts could not possibly hope to find a full bag of authentic Chinese, settled for any vaguely Oriental features. Dancer Denise Quan is really Canadian of Chinese origin. Shawnee Smith is American Indian (Hopi) and English. Vicki Racimo is a promising piano student (at Manhattan's Juilliard School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: The Girls on Grant Avenue | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

From San Andres in mountainous Huila Department came bloody news: a band of Conservative partisans had swept through town and, in the pattern of Colombia's decade-long, interparty war, massacred 38 men, women and children, mostly from Liberal families. Then, in Bogota, citizens spotted black-suited gunslingers drifting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Dictator's Cruise | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

The Bradley died in the mad sea. Cries of struggling sailors grew fainter; the buoy flares were snuffed out. The three men on the raft spotted Deck Hand Dennis Meredith and pulled him aboard. They found five flares and a sea anchor inside the hatch of the raft. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Death of the Bradley | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Ahead, just then, they saw land: High Island, a small square bump in the lake. Slowly, the raft drifted toward it. Fleming turned around: behind, bearing down on them, was a ship. They were spotted. It was the Coast Guard tender Sundew. They cried: "It's coming! It'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Death of the Bradley | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

World War II. When the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, friends got Willy, by now a Norwegian citizen, into a Norwegian soldier's uniform, and although he spent five weeks in a P.W. camp, the Nazis never spotted the disguise. Released, he slipped across to Sweden, there wrote anti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MAYOR OF FREE BERLIN | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

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