Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flying over Kansas, a Navy pilot gazed down at the checkerboard of wheatland below, suddenly spotted four huge letters plowed across one field near Marienthal (1950 pop. 250). The alarming message: HELP. The pilot quickly passed the word on the radio that someone was in trouble down there. Police found...
Even before the guard was dead the rest of the Pak Tang's human cargo came swarming out of her holds. At this onrush, one of the government's two functionaries aboard leaped into the sea; the other, after a brief struggle, was wounded and overpowered. Jubilantly, the...
Felix Frankfurter, 74, appointed by President Roosevelt in 1939. Vienna-born, came to the U.S. at twelve, worked his way from $4-a-week delivery boy's job into top of the law class at Harvard (1906), worked briefly as a junior in a Manhattan law firm, then for...
¶ In the ninth inning of a game with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Johnny Temple, Cincinnati Redleg second baseman, let a hot grounder sizzle through his legs, looked up to see the Scoreboard flash "error." and began a slow burn. After the Redlegs lost in the 11th, 3-2. Temple spotted...
. . . And So Ad Infinitum. In Tokyo, police spotted Mitsushi Tanimoto in a store picking a woman's pocket, made the arrest and then nabbed the woman, who was so busy shoplifting sweaters that she had not noticed the pickpocket.