Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish and Italian girls swarmed into the shops. Huddled in crowded misery that was unlike the village life they had known, they seized on the union for social contacts, and demanded of it the better life America had promised. A woman's local established the first union vacation spot in 1915, in Pine Hill, N.Y. They organized little amateur theatricals and uplift courses that ranged from parliamentary law to mandolin playing...
After the series started, circulation of the Daily News (514,627) jumped as much as 20,000 copies a day. Thus publicly put on the spot, police and health officials took hasty action. They shut down 56 saloons and restaurants pinpointed in the Daily News series, until they complied with the laws. But even with the heat on, Mooney and Bird found 32 drunks sprawled on Skid Row in a ten-minute walk. Police Commissioner John Prendergast threw up his hands: "What can we do? Arrest them all? The Bridewell [prison] is full." It looked as if it would take...
...have federal projects in mind-rivers, harbors, post offices, federal buildings-which needed the approval of vitriolic old Kenneth McKellar, a man who never forgives and never forgets. There was hardly a Senator who was not also thinking about some patronage jobs-a federal judgeship, a spot as U.S. attorney-or some legal claim in his own state. All such matters have to be approved by Pat McCarran's Judiciary Committee. And McCarran was also McKellar's right bower on the Appropriations Committee...
...field trip," Wilson said. "Once we've decided what we want, off we go-a taxidermist or curator to trap and skin the animals, an accessories man, and a background man like myself." For the beavers, they went to central Michigan, stayed two weeks. Wilson made on-the-spot paintings and supplemented them with color photos. The accessories man collected shrubs and stumps for the foreground, things he could later reproduce in paper, wax and cellulose acetate...
...summer wears away; the Polish Corridor becomes the hottest spot in Europe. A frantic cable comes from Jimmy's mother. An old terror returns to him: he may have another epileptic seizure any day. But before he does, the Forces of history converge on Mell and kill Max Divver, their disillusioned celebrant, as he is making a last confused and furious effort to acquire personal dignity...