Word: spottedness
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It was about midnight when the astronomy buffs gathered atop Arizona's 7,000-ft. Kitt Peak spotted the first shooting stars streaking across the cloudless night sky. Then, slowly, the glowing trails began to multiply. Twenty an hour, then 30 and 40, until at 5 a.m. the sky erupted...
Moody, who was an honor student in high school and studied engineering at Southern Illinois University, was a mess by the time she set out for Genesis House last New Year's Day. (On the train she spotted a friendly-looking man, went a couple of extra stops and made...
"He doesn't always do that," deadpanned Brown. "Only when he's awake." Brown went on to enumerate the major landmarks that can be spotted from orbit: "You can see the pyramids from space and sometimes rivers and big airports, and actually, Jay, every time we fly by California, we...
Both in person and in the pages he produced each week, Newsweek editor MAYNARD PARKER had an edgy energy that was rooted in a passion for the news. Often tightly coiled and always ready to spring, he had the gleeful ability to rip up his magazine as it was going...
Meanwhile, night had fallen and my driver wanted dinner. I agreed to head back to Harvard without my green sash, my golden fleece, the right shoe size for my glass slipper. We drove back toward Route Two in silence. All of a sudden, I spotted the Ayer Police Station. Stop...