Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When New York's Governor Dewey went to Seattle's waterfront last week with all his colleagues to greet returning Korea veterans, Sergeant John Scotti of Brooklyn spotted Dewey's convertible, leaned over the door and began to chat:
Most of them said "sir," even to enlisted attendants. A few, glancing through new magazines, asked: "Who's this Marilyn Monroe dame?" A Turk spotted the Turkish flag hanging among others, buried his face in it, and cried, when an officer took it down and gave it to him...
Gradually, the New Dealers awoke to him. There was good reason why Taft was so widely attacked. The men around Roosevelt, New Deal apologists among the press, and the high-riding labor unions, unerringly spotted a potentially dangerous enemy. He was ridiculed and vilified. He was highly vulnerable to attack...
At war's end. Abboud spotted another field that would fit nicely with his sugar business: he forced a foreign-owned distillery of industrial alcohol, the only one in Egypt, out of business and set up his own. Other postwar Abboud projects: a $7,400,000, 300,000 tons...
Encore. In Kansas City, Kans., released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving a three-year term for auto theft, Edward H. Diller spotted a shiny yellow convertible, drove it off, 48 hours later was arrested and sentenced to a year and a day at Leavenworth, for auto theft.