Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members, 30 temporary employees and more than 200 volunteer clerical workers control a hectically complex organism. Automatic typewriters clack out letters appealing for prayer; duplicating machines roll out instructions and memorandums. On wall maps of New York, the U.S. and the world, red, blue and green pins and tapes spot churches (1,510 in Greater New York) and prayer groups supporting the campaign. Staff members: 1) channel the activities of 108,415 "prayer partners" in the U.S.; 2) keep tab on 158,817 prayer partners in 48 other countries; 3) ride herd on the "active" cooperating ministers, the "partial-supporting...
...report on the two-month, 15-nation Mideast tour of Ike Doctrine Salesman James P. Richards (TIME, May 13): Of the $200 million made available to the doctrine for emergency Mideast aid, said Ambassador Richards, he had pledged $120 million on the spot-slightly more than half of it for economic assistance, the rest for "guns, tanks and things of that kind," which will be rushed to the area. Richards' report was followed by a complaint from Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba, who had accepted $3,000,000 in Eisenhower Doctrine economic aid, but was nettled by Richards' refusal...
...Spot. All this was too much for the militant progressives of Morocco's dominant Istiqlal (Independence) Party. Worried about a nationwide drought which has cut food supplies, concerned over growing unemployment in the cities as French capital withdraws, the Istiqlal looked upon the gathering of the Glaoui clan as both an exasperation and an opportunity to divert discontent. Pointing to the "feudal lords" and "collaborators" driving their big cars through the hungry countryside, trade unionists shouted in the streets of Marrakech: "El Glaoui's wealth must be returned to the people...
...Sultan was on the spot. Just before El Glaoui died last year at 80, the old man had groveled abjectly before the man he had forced into exile, begging forgiveness. The Sultan had granted it, and promised royal protection for El Glaoui's sons and heirs. But the militant Istiqlal had no such inhibitions. It called on the Moundamah Seria, an irregular secret police organized by the Istiqlal during the battle for independence. On May Day the Moundamah Seria's armed men moved. One Glaoui son was seized as he drove through the old medina. Three others were...
...what do you know about Iceland disease?" By chance. Dr. Poskanzer, a disease detective for the U.S. Epidemic Intelligence Service (TIME. Jan. 19, 1953), was able to answer: "I've just read the entire world literature on the subject-both papers." Immediately, his boss ordered him to a spot where an outbreak of the rare disease was suspected. The spot: Punta Gorda...