Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, the Air Force answer was blunt: there was no reason for a second strategic air arm when its land-based 6-365 could already deliver bomb loads to any spot in the world. Besides, the airmen pointed out, the Navy could not land its heavy bombers once they had taken off. In the Air Force view, the supercarrier was a needlessly expensive duplication which could not complete its mission without the help of Air Force landing fields...
...idea, of course, was to put Northern Democrats on the spot if they helped defeat the amendment, to stir up a Southern filibuster against the bill if the amendment passed. When Illinois' Douglas tried to head off the maneuver, Republican Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry moved in with a taunting counterattack: "Does the Senator mean that this small and gallant group of liberals is going to vote for the amendment or does he mean it is going to vote against it? Being liberals, of course they would vote to support an amendment which provides that there shall be no discrimination...
...Broadway playgoer can spot a hit by the line at the box office. For the record, Billboard has denned a hit as a show that runs for more than 100 performances. Last week, by the formal definition, an overdressed underdog of a revue called All for Love (TIME, Jan. 31) became the costliest, floppingest "hit" in U.S. theatrical history...
Staying closer to home, other astronomers have been studying the sun's immediate family of planets. Last week, New York University's Dr. Hans Panofsky gave the American Meteorological Society the latest word on Jupiter's atmospheric oddities. Oddest is the "red spot," a cloud 30,000 miles long and about 10,000 miles wide which goes around the planet's axis in a little less than ten hours. Its speed varies a few yards per second; so do the earth's westerly winds. Both, presumably, are reacting to a common cause-something...
...CRIMSON was on the spot; who could they send to hit under that blazing russet sun? Carodny had been traded to the Times. Ludendorff lanquished in Minneapolis. Suddenly from the dugout the diminutive figure of Frail B. Little-fellow emerged into the garnet...