Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spot where Gaitán fell, on the sidewalk of Bogota's bustling main street, citizens have mounted a framed scroll on a crude, flag-draped platform...
Each morning fresh flowers are put in the earthenware jugs surrounding it, and all through the day passersby stop to read: "At this spot was sacrificed the father, liberator, and leader of the Colombian people...
...Cocksure little Al Trace was packing a spot where anyone had to be both good and loud to blow away the memories of more memorable bands-the famed Coon-Sanders orchestra; or Ben Pollack's band, which featured a young trombonist named Glenn Miller and a clarinetist named Benny Goodman. Kay Kyser had started his College of Musical Knowledge there...
Soviet Marshal Klimenti (the "Liberator of Budapest") Voroshilov is something of a connoisseur of art, as generals go. In the summer of 1946, when Hungary was looking for somebody to commemorate its "liberation" with a giant monument, Voroshilov found the man on the spot. On a stroll through a Budapest park, he had seen and admired a sculpture by Sigismund de Strobl. Voroshilov dropped in at De Strobl's studio on newly named Voroshilov Avenue, found the sculptor quite willing to do the job. But De Strobl would have nothing to do with the proposed designs, which called...
...frat boys going through their rituals as if life itself depended on them ("every night a freshman stood on the roof of the Nu Delta house and announced the time every 15 seconds"); the blonde whom gentlemen preferred and who was thrilled to see in Paris "the historical spot where Mr. Coty makes all the perfume...