Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both teams played cautiously at first. With Don Lofgran sinking a succession of rebounds, San Francisco went ahead. By half time, the Dons were leading 27-19, and Lofgran had scored 17 points. Kerris, forced from his favorite under-the-basket spot by good San Francisco defensive tactics, had sunk only three...
...clean work table, where he does his conferring, and a rolltop desk (always locked when he is away), where he does his thinking, figuring and secret dreaming. Close at hand are two small globes. (The big three-foot one on which he used to plan his routes and spot his far-flung bases, measuring off the distances with pieces of string, has been placed in the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences...
Audience Participation. In Manhattan, Comedian Jack Carter reported that after his weekly television show he received a letter from a dentist: "I would . . . like to call your attention to a dark spot in your upper bicuspid area . . . May I be of service...
Community Service members are also planning a large-scale bridge game, "on-the-spot" portraits, merchandise booths supplied gratis by local stores, and a student art work salon with purchasable paintings...
...Bring Players? For more advanced batting practice, Dodgertown had three mechanical pitching machines, supposed to throw the ball at just the desired speed and-over & over again-at just the right spot. The Dodgers called one "The Bazooka," another "Iron Mike," the third "Overhand Joe." Last week Rickey introduced still another gadget-"Big Inch," a gravity-feed pipeline into which outfielders tossed the ball after shagging long flies. "Big Inch" conducted the balls to a box near the batting cage, prevented a hail of return throws and saved the outfielder's arm for the throwing practice that would come...