Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first day of his duel with Hollywood's suspected Communists, Representative J. Parnell Thomas, a choleric man, smashed one gavel to a smither. Next day he turned up with two new ones, prepared, if necessary, to smash both to smithereens. The spot he had put himself in was enough to try the patience of a saint, and J. Parnell ("Undoubting Thomas," as the Nation called him) was no saint. But he hated Beelzebub, and he was trying to solve the fly problem with a horse whip...
...criticism aimed at the Thomas committee did not come only from the Communists and their confused comrades. The nation's press was almost unanimous in its condemnation. A spot survey by the New York Times showed that many plain citizens were seriously concerned about the committee's conduct. Some wanted to scrap the Thomas committee outright; others wanted to do away with the whole system of congressional investigations...
Veteran Radioman Ratner, 43, is in a good spot to hit back at radio's detractors: he is the new CBS vice president in charge of promotion and advertising. He is a veteran scrapper (as a University of Michigan freshman, he once outwrestled Ed "Don" George, who became a topflight U.S. heavyweight...
...they always seemed to say, "You licked me at Upper Canada College"). More exasperating were pupils whose parents did their lessons for them: "I used to say to them: 'Paul, tell your father that he must use the ablative after pro.' " But there was always a bright spot, wrote Leacock. "It is the last day of school. . . . If every day in the life of a school could be the last, there would be little fault to find with...
...Lesser Worries. The Brookhaven conferees heard some schemes for safe shipment (to researchers and doctors) of radioactive material. Examples: make shipping boxes too big to be carried in a pocket (too close to the body); put horns on boxes to prevent their being cradled against the stomach (a vulnerable spot...