Word: spotting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chicago bureau's Jim Bell stood for a long time at a bus stop in The Loop, making a spot check of the current long-skirt vogue. A policeman tapped him on the shoulder and said: "I been watchin' you, buddy. Better move on. We don't like that stuff around here...
Principal Wood moved fast. Wading through the picket line, he yanked down one effigy. Then, on the spot, he suspended all student strikers until they appeared before him with their parents. For two days he interviewed students and parents, made each sign a pledge agreeing "that all Fremont students are entitled to the same rights and privileges...
Tsaldaris' statement put Communism's busy friends in the U.S. on the spot. Support from Washington, far from encouraging Tsaldaris to a war of extermination against the left, had given him sufficient confidence to make concessions and to emphasize that he would play the democratic game as long as the Communists, along with everybody else, were forced to abide by the rules. At a time when some Communist leaders in France (see FOREIGN NEWS) were deciding they did not like the democratic rules, Tsaldaris' statement had a piquant point...
...obvious way to find an apartment is to call a real-estate agent-anywhere but in Rio, that is. Agents here can't find apartments and they firmly refuse new business. So you read advertisements, spot something, find a cab-if you can-and speed to it. After weeks of that sort of searching you become gun-shy. Why? Because "furnished" apartments are that in name only...
...boost in margins and 2) a change in the Government's delivery requirements. It agreed to accept many deliveries wherever the wheat is, rather than at Kansas City, as called for in contracts. This eased the pinch in wheat markets which were being drained of spot wheat for deliveries...