Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Bob Taft wanted a tough, omnibus bill he could dump as a single package on Harry Truman's desk. If the President vetoed it, that would be all right with Bob Taft. He knew what he wanted and he was all for putting Harry Truman on the spot. Meanwhile, Democrats moved heaven & earth to have the bill split up, and thus give the President a chance to sit squarely on the fence. Truman could then court labor's support by killing the harshest proposals, try to win public support by approving the mildest...
...John sitting with Sarah; there was John sitting beside an empty marble chair (which bore an engraved inscription: "The Vacant Chair"). There was John kneeling on his wife's grave and Sarah, equipped with a set of wings, kneeling with a stone bouquet in one hand on the spot he had reserved for himself...
...Brazil this week, an eager group of U.S. scientists were happily tuning up their instruments (everything from thermometers to a 6-29). They were waiting for the moon to eclipse the sun on May 20. The scientists had picked Bocayuva, 400 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, as the spot most likely to have clear skies on the big day. If clouds should blind the ground instruments, airplanes will take off early to observe what they can from high altitudes...
...Mueller himself wears a dark, striped suit and spectacles. Lending an air of Continental, scholarly suaveness to the store's Continental air of dim, dusty industry, he is always on the spot, assuring worried customers that on order to Chile will take only six weeks, or showing off his treasured collection of rare books only to those he knows share his love of antiquity. For Mr. Mueller, tall and soft-spaken, is no newcomer to bibliopoly. In Vienna, where he lived until 1939, he worked in his father's university bookstore. After eight months spent at Buchenwald, he came...
...Senator Claude Pepper was one such. Just about everybody believed the political disclaimer of Secretary of State George Marshall (who would become President if Harry Truman died in office). Ike Eisenhower, who had tried hard to squash presidential rumors, would be even less likely to consider the No. 2 spot...