Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chequers, Eden stopped at London's University College Hospital to see his wife Clarissa, who was suffering with a troublesome wisdom tooth. As he sat by the bedside, Eden suddenly began to shiver. His temperature soared to 105½°. Doctors put him to bed on the spot, just across the corridor from his wife, and announced he had suffered "a feverish chill." Three days later, Eden was back at his desk, but some colleagues claim he has never been the same since...
...that Nasser was promising to behave, and perhaps had to, the concern about Russian penetration of the Middle East turned to a second trouble spot: Syria. There, another Russian-backed Nasser has come to power: young, handsome bachelor Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj. From the moment Syria proclaimed martial law after the Anglo-French and Israeli invasions of Egypt, President Shukri el Kuwatly has been the virtual prisoner of the army, and Colonel Serraj has established himself as Syria's strongman. Nominally the army's chief of intelligence, Colonel Serraj last month personally planned the sabotage...
Yale end Paul Lopata was unanimously placed on the team and three other members of the Ivy championship eleven were also chosen. Eli captain John Owseichik, all-Ivy center last year, was selected, along with Metropoulos, for the guard spot...
...they wanted no armed help from the West, which might jeopardize their fight; they were confident they could win alone. The fact is, that for all their tanks, the Communists were bereft of one necessary ingredient of Soviet control, a trustworthy party apparatus among the people themselves, able to spot and block trouble...
...tension of that slow first quarter last week, the fans realized that they had never really had anything to worry about. All they had to do was wait for the breaks and watch the Volunteers win a sure shot at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans and a sure spot among the best college football teams...