Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin crisis had backfired. By committing itself to the relief of Berlin the U.S. had committed itself more deeply than ever to the defense of Europe. The very vulnerability of the U.S. military position in Berlin taught the lesson of how necessary it was to have force on the spot. On their objective No. 2, however, the Russians had made some headway with the Berlin blockade...
...years. That the West's position in Berlin was militarily untenable if the Red army attacked was no new discovery. The Russians have known for two years that they could take Berlin-and much more. What deterred them was not Western strength on the spot, but the strength they feared the West could and would mobilize...
...seize Pallante. He waved them back with his gun and calmly pumped two more bullets into Togliatti before police seized him. Blood soaked through Togliatti's grey double-breasted suit and made small, neat pools on the cobblestones. In the hot sun the blood soon dried. (The spot where he fell was only two blocks from where he had narrowly missed death 25 years ago, when Fascist police stood him against a wall to be executed; he escaped when the executioner lost his nerve.) Two bullets had pierced Togliatti's right lung, a third had struck...
Thanks to four on-the-spot darkrooms and an Acme-developed machine called the Trans-Ceiver, only 23 minutes elapsed from the time a photographer shot a picture in the hall until Acme transmitted it to a newspaper client's office anywhere in the U.S. When the Secret Service locked the Convention Hall doors after President Truman arrived, incidentally trapping A.P. and I.N.P. messengers, Acme's margin of half an hour on the other services jumped temporarily to an hour...
...modern plant, another building was nearing completion -a ten-story white shaft with sea-green windows and an affluent look. Times reporters, who long ago broke down the no-smoking rule, were under fresh orders from the management: anybody who entered the new building would be fired on the spot...