Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some U.S. officials on the spot shared the general feeling of despair. The embassy advised U.S. citizens to move not only out of North China, but even from the Nanking-Shanghai area. The U.S. Army began to ship out hundreds of wives and children of U.S. military personnel...
...more colorful than historical fiction. Once when Roosevelt complained that he never could have peanuts because his secret service would have to check each one, Sherwood and Rosenman slipped out and got him a bagful which he kept under his coat and devoured. His aides were quick to spot the chief's moods and behave accordingly. Sometimes it would be: "God help anybody who asks him for any favors today." Again: "He feels so good he'll be telling Cotton Ed Smith that it's perfectly all right for the South to go ahead and secede...
...West, Young Man. Oppenheimer came back from Europe (after further study at Leiden and Zurich) with a racking cough. The doctors feared T.B., and advised the young man to go west. In New Mexico, near the spot where he had vacationed with Herbert Smith, Oppenheimer leased a ranch 35 miles from Santa...
...dealing with military and civilian brass in Washington, and growing in personal assurance at each new contact. He acquired a new trademark. Worried about security, General Groves told Oppie that his broad-brimmed Stetson was too much hat; every spy within a mile of Union Station could spot his comings & goings. Oppie compromised on a brown porkpie (size 6 7/8|), and has worn it ever since. Physicists were not mystified when the hat appeared, uncaptioned and unexplained, on the cover of the magazine Physics Today...
Sealed Verdict (Paramount) is a sorry-example of Hollywood's new trick of using authentic backgrounds to dress up synthetic stories. The scene is a battle-scarred German city where the U.S. Army is trying war criminals. Through the realistic setting, it is all too easy to spot the old movie corn and the gimmick...