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Word: spottedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Off the spectator-dotted beach south of Cape Canaveral an Air Force crash boat cut through the Atlantic rollers to wave off small craft. Just before lunch missile buffs spotted "the Bird" through binoculars-a slim, distant white finger pointed against the light blue sky. Bubbling clouds of evaporating LOX...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Atlas' Rough Ride | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Without Orders. Most Moslems went into hiding. But one Moslem truck driver, accelerating to get away, knocked down and killed a European woman. The mob dragged the driver out of his cab, beat him senseless. A soldier killed him with a long burst from his submachine gun. On the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Dance of Death | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

One morning last week, Jack Putnam, foreman of nearby Buzzard Ranch, rode his horse up Ferris Mountain. LeMasurier's radio-TV company in Duluth had offered a $2,500 reward for anyone who located the plane, and Putnam had a hunch. Late in the morning he spotted a tiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WYOMING: Cruel Mountain | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

In the two weeks before election, Sam Newhouse's Journal had supported the losing ticket with more than 240 column-inches of editorials. The paper did not have to wait long for the showdown. At City Hall on election night 2,000 Murray supporters spotted five Journal reporters and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Silent Treatment | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Michiko shot to her present eminence by a maneuver familiar to Hollywood: posing in the seminude. The daughter of an Osaka metal-shop owner, she arrived in Tokyo when she was 15 seeking a singing career, but was bluntly told by the first recording company she went to that she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Untamed! | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

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