Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Ladies and gentlemen," the intercom Li crackles, "out of the left side of the cabin are the remains of the Japanese Imperial Fleet." Banking sharply into the sunset, the Air Micronesia 727 circles the Truk lagoon. Coral reefs color the water in pastels of orange, yellow and green, interspersed with...
The sun had just risen over the northeastern tip of Long Island, and an icy wind was blowing in from Gardiners Bay. Except for screeching herring gulls and other hungry birds, the only sign of life on this blustery (20° F.) winter morning was a small column of people...
For the moment, at least, such weighty things were not on the minds of the Long Island bird watchers. By mid-morning the group had spotted 36 different species, slightly shy of the figure at that hour during the previous year's count. "Not really too good," shrugged Leader...
The revolutionaries held regular jobs. Josie Bissell was a nurse's aide, while Michael Justesen worked as a pressman at a lithography firm. To avoid detection, the group scheduled all meetings with Ralph and Dick by calling them at predesignated phone booths. The radicals never went to any political...
If the past year is any indication, aggressions on the field will cease long before announcers stop doing violence to language. When they do, ungrammatical sign makers will doubtless be hard at work. As they did in 1977, chain stores will offer "bargain's" and "giant sales" will not...