Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny morning last week Ivins walked out to the garage (past the spot in his yard where he had once killed a Negro). Danny waited for "Grandpa" to back out his battered 1941 Ford coupe. Ivins touched the starter button. An explosion ripped the car apart. Danny, bowled over by the blast, was not seriously hurt. Burkett Ivins lived long enough to mutter: "I'm done in for good-but to think they would do that to my Danny." Beside him was his .45 Colt automatic...
...shilling. Other Wednesday black marks: coal prices increased as much as six shillings a ton; the new clothing coupon period started, but now there were fewer coupons; under the Exchange Control Act, officials began opening parcels and letters suspected of containing notes or valuables. There was only one bright spot: Britons were at last permitted to turn on their heaters to combat the October evening chill...
Since last July the opticians, directed by tall, spindly Dr. John A. Anderson, have been making the final tests. They proved that the great mirror will allow the pinpoint image of a star to diffuse into a spot whose diameter is equivalent to less than .07 seconds of arc. Such accuracy is better than necessary, since the normal turbulence of the atmosphere causes seven times as much distortion...
...price rise in cocoa in recent weeks had outstripped every other commodity. Decontrolled by OPA at 14.95? a pound, December cocoa had soared to 35.45?. Last week, after rising the legal limit each day for seven days, it got to 42.25?. Spot deliveries were quoted at 49?, a whopping 900% above 1939-3 price...
...theater, during the early 19th Century, took orders from the audience, and "bad acting, like bad singing at La Scala, Milan, was punished on the spot with hoots and hisses, often with apples, oranges and sticks. Sometimes . . . the manager would bring the offender forward, and he would humbly apologize and promise to do better next time." When famed Theater Manager John Philip Kemble raised his prices at the new Covent Garden, rioting theatergoers forced Kemble to restore the old prices. Actor Macready had to apologize for appearing in a part that did not suit...