Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quartermaster officer. His persistent attempt to overhaul the archaic accounting methods of the sprawling Chicago quartermaster's office caused a ruckus that brought him to the verge of a court-martial. But the quartermaster general took one look at Kohler's suggestions, ordered them adopted on the spot...
...Balkans." Hungary was not strictly Balkan, but it was in the Cominform orbit. Last week Hungary's Communist government won a victory over Hungary's Catholicism. In the midst of the fracas, trading punch for punch, was Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, a tough prelate in a tough spot...
...Boer War came, then the spot of bother of 1914-1918, then World War II. The Queen's domains were whittled away, but Campbell stirred neither drum or gun to save them. No one bothered him. Even at Victoria Barracks last week they still did not bother the old man (he was 80). In fact, he was a problem to modern, Socialist Britain-his records, of course, were lost. Someone suggested he go to Chelsea Royal Hospital, but it admits only veterans recommended for good conduct. "How," asked an official contemplating Campbell's case, "can you recommend good...
...Despite talk of shortages, U.S. gasoline supplies for this summer "look pretty good," the Interior Department reported. Unless the public drives "recklessly far and recklessly fast," there will be only brief spot shortages due to inadequate transportation and distribution...
...minor but respectable talents are not as successful in The Foolish Gentlewoman as in its predecessors. The novel begins promisingly enough. At Chipping Lodge on Chipping Hill, a pleasant, grassy spot eight miles from London, lives "sentimental, affectionate, uncritical Mrs. Brocken," together with mementos of her younger years and miscellaneous members of her family. Mrs. Brocken "had adored her husband and was very fond of her French peppermill. An old watering-can was dear to her because she remembered seeing the gardener use it on her mother's rose-beds, and a new alarm-clock, because...