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Word: spotting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since V-J day, Korea had been a sore spot. The damage had started at Yalta, where an illogical division of Korea between U.S. and Soviet occupations had been decided upon. It had been worsened by bad administration in the U.S. zone and by the fond U.S. hope that the Russians would somehow come to be reasonable. Now the State Department frankly recognized the failure of both U.S. policy and its execution, and saw that the time had come for more radical remedies. After consultation with Marshall, it was ready with a new program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Digging In | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...burial of highly radioactive bodies: "Dispose of them summarily by sealing them in caskets . . . lowering the caskets into excavations floored by a copious layer of concrete and then completely surrounding them with more concrete poured to fill the excavations. The graves, of course, would be located in a secluded spot from which the public would forever be barred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: File Quickly Past | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...Texas farm boy felt on the spot, and showed it-at bat, by swinging at bad balls; in the outfield (where the Giants are trying him, instead of as a pitcher), by misjudging fly balls. He also showed a tendency to go for a line drive with his head averted, and a disinclination to block a bouncing ball the way all good outfielders do-with his body as well as his glove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hero Without Spurs | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...operations stockholders were treated to ham, cheese, roast beef and chicken sandwiches, coffee, Pepsi-Cola. President Mack himself, looking not unlike Movie Butler Arthur Treacher, passed around a tray of hors d'oeuvres . One happy stockholder's verdict of the party: "It kind of hit the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Family Party | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...almost before the reader knows it, years & years have passed and Chloe is drifting to her death in Latin America, having made derelict love to all comers, including an Argentine tenor, a Nicaraguan politico and a Grace Line purser. Readers of drugstore novels, as soon as they spot the heroine's name, will know this is for them; for Chloe is to this season's novels and soap operas what Sandra and Brenda were to the trash of previous years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bruff Stuff | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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