Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theory. Bingham is convinced that the city he found is older, perhaps a thousand years older, than Cuzco, which dates from about 1100. To this spot, he believes, the pre-Inca ruler Pachacuti retreated before Amazonian hordes. On the mountain terraces, the pre-inca civilization survived to go forth with manco, the first Inca, to Cuzco and the far-flung empire (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador) that the Spaniards found. To this peak the last Incas fled to live out their days in cloudswept palaces that no white man saw till, in 1911, Hiram Bingham found them...
...years, off & on, he had tapped many of them for crime tips, notably the Midwest's ill-famed Shelton brothers. On their part, brothers Carl, Bernie and Earl Shelton, who had terrorized southern Illinois before "retiring" as gentlemen farmers on bootleg and slot-machine fortunes, had a soft spot for the Post-Dispatch. It had once found out about a frame-up plot against them in 1926, and they never forgot it. That was fine with the Post-Dispatch. It suspected a tie-up between gambling interests and Illinois Governor Dwight Green's G.O.P. machine just across...
Furthermore, the Dartmouth rebuttal had touched a tender spot. One of the alumni who saw it was none other than Tribune Managing Editor "Pat" Maloney (Dartmouth '13). The Trib promptly called Ottawa to ask Griffin about that "moon is green" crack. Griffin issued a blustering denial: "The Dartmouth bull about me was just a lot of goddamn lies by some scared, chickentrack Dickey jerks who can't contradict what I wrote. They were afraid the alumni will look into what's going on at Dartmouth, so they tried like hell to get me fired...
Thayer Middle chalked up its third straight victory yesterday to take undisputed possession of first place in the Yard intramural touch football's American League. At the same time, Lionel packed up its third in a row to tie Strauss for top spot in the National circuit...
...favored garages have been able to contemplate upwards of $100 a week in towing fees pried from unhappy students. At the same time, University police have been distributing tickets and fines with their usual consistency; so student drivers have been forced to shuttle their vehicles from one spot to another, and have usually would up with some sort of a summons for their troubles...