Word: spotter
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...anachronistically decorated with inviting travel posters, ground out fresh communiqués-a road block put up here, a prison stormed there, a European game warden and a forest ranger attacked elsewhere. Against the clubs, stones and pan gas of the Africans, the government had Bren guns, Sten guns, spotter planes-even Vampire jets-plus the services of the King's African Riflemen, the Rhodesia African Rifles, the Royal Rhodesia Regiment, Southern Rhodesia's South African Police, the Royal Rhodesian Air Force, the Tanganyika police, the Nyasaland police, and assorted white vigilante "special constables" from Southern Rhodesia. Gradually...
...afternoon of the second day, as spotter planes wheeled overhead and tear-and vomit-gas bombs popped wildly, Hong Kong's Acting Governor Edgeworth B. David at long last ordered British troops into the troubled areas, soon swept the rioters off the streets. In the debris stretcher-bearers found a shoe containing a human foot. There also were 47 dead, almost all of them rioters destroyed by the terror they had fed. Nearly a hundred stores and buildings had been sacked and burned, and a pall of the smoke of burning loot hovered over Kowloon. Governor David ordered...
...Botsford watched the end of practice in street cloths with his arm in a sling. He is on the game list, however, which means he may dress for tomorrow's contest against Princeton. Dexter Lewis will also make the trip to Princeton but will watch the game as a spotter...
Comfortable Cushion. The pin-spotter is also symptomatic of the revolution that has taken place in the American Machine & Foundry Co. Formed in 1900 as the cigarette machine-making subsidiary of James Duke's tobacco trust, A.M.F. became an independent firm after the trust was broken up in 1911. Under the presidency of Rufus Lenoir Patterson, who had been an American Tobacco Co. vice president, A.M.F. developed the first cigarmaking machine. With a patent monopoly in the field, A.M.F. was able to charge the entire cost of the machine (about $4,800) upon installation, then collect a royalty...
...week's end more than 27,000 of about 34,000 North Koreans had joined in the breakout. U.S. helicopters and spotter planes watched them on the roads, in the villages; U.S. M.P.s recognized a few of them-lean, young, alert, with shorter haircuts than other Koreans-in the back alleys of Pusan. But most were hidden, methodically quartered among the townspeople. Only a handful were recaptured, most of them voluntarily, apparently swayed by U.N. leaflets and broadcasts declaring that they had "made a mistake...