Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comrades, including Mayor Cerofolino, stormed and threatened, but true to his decision, Nofri joined the Christian Democrats and began to campaign actively against "Marxist corruption and confusion." On Mayor Ce-rofolino's motion, the party denounced Nofri as an "outcast and traitor." Cerofolino himself was put on the spot by his party superiors for "failure to maintain rank-and-file discipline...
...past, a man who is himself an authentic hero of Bolivia today will receive this week the gold medallion and green-red-yellow sash of the presidency. Hernan Siles Zuazo, 42, is following in his father's steps: 30 years ago, Hernando Siles stood in the same spot in the Chamber of Deputies to receive the presidential insignia...
Across the U.S. as a whole, polio con tinued to increase in its usual seasonal pattern, but at a far slower rate than usual, giving the lowest total for the disease year (April 1 to date) since 1947. Chicago remained the hot-spot exception, with a new case tallied almost hourly, for a total of 384 at week's end (60% of the victims were children under five), with nine dead. Of 26 victims who had been vaccinated, only two had had three shots; six had two shots...
...tape delayed further digging for years. But at last the persistent Grimes got permission to dig in another nearby bomb site, selected a spot where he thought the systematic Romans would have built their usual turrets. Well below the modern surface, he found what he was looking for: two stone blockhouses about 25 ft. square. Between them ran a road divided by stone markers into two 8-ft. chariot-ways. The road had been surfaced three times. Grimes estimated that the forts and road were built in A.D. 70-90, about the time of the Emperor Vespasian...
...economy's biggest trouble spot-the automobile stocks in dealers' hands -was clearing up as dealer inventories on July 1 dropped to an estimated 664,019, down 17% from the previous month and 18% below the inventories a year...