Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Street where he lived for nine years. The big, yellow brick house is now owned by the W. L. Mackenzie King Woodside Foundation, which hopes some day to make it a national shrine. Meantime it is rented to Polish-born Tony Kielbasa, a tanner. Mr. King pointed to the spot where he and his brother had once pitched their tent and to a bank that had once been covered with violets. He talked of his mother's bed of lilies-of-the-valley. A giant tulip tree in the grove behind the house had grown so much he failed...
Hungarian-born Robert Capa, a friendly enemy alien, was in a tough spot. Hopefully, he yelled back, "Take it easy!" but the trigger-happy G.I., hearing his guttural accent, began to shoot. There was only one thing...
...press about arrival times of the ships, and herded reporters and photographers into wire cages away from the gangplanks. (They were afraid, they said, that if the Jews saw a lot of newspaper people around they would feel encouraged to get violent.) The 15 photographers, assigned to an impossible spot from which to shoot, told P.R.O.s that they might as well bar all cameras. So their cameras were barred, and a British Army photographer was the only one allowed to take pictures...
...herself, and for 21 years a Bond Street gallery exhibited the rest. Shipped to the U.S., the paintings were valued at $1,000,000 and viewed by over a million people in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. Many wept over them; several clergymen felt inspired to preach on-the-spot sermons...
...batting average at week's end was a solid .301. The wise boys who judge a hitter by his Runs Batted In totals are apt to take too fast a look at Jackie's R.B.I, and grumble that Jackie can't hit in a tight spot. But as the club's No. 2 hitter in the lineup, Jackie's job is either to push along the lead-off man by a sacrifice, or to get on base himself. Jackie's R.B.I, total (44) is higher than most No. 2 hitters'-including Philadelphia...