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Word: spotting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barbs at the Northern press, I said that our problem in Iowa admittedly was smaller than his in Alabama, but that we had covered thoroughly, as important news, race discrimination in this state. The Register has been saying editorially for many years that Northerners have a "moral blind spot" on race discrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 2, 1956 | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...watched Mike Sierra. Plata's air speed was within limits-barely over the minimum 160 m.p.h. Then Hancox noted that Plata had forgotten to turn off his blinking running lights, potential sparkmakers because of their constantly opening and closing electrical circuits. Mike Sierra began dumping gas. From his spot above and to the rear of the Constellation, Coast Guardsman Hancox saw small blue flashes plume off in the moonlight, then a bursting flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Death in the Moonlight | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...School. Meeting brisk fire coolly directed by the school's commander, Colonel Pizarro Jones, they fell back and were captured. In suburban Lanús, armed civilians attacked a police station; 18 of them and the two retired army officers who commanded them were executed on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Expected Plot | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...questions, e.g., maintenance facilities, fuel storage, radio navigation aids, passenger and baggage facilities. The Russians, who instigated the talks and appear willing to grant berthing privileges in other cities of the U.S.S.R., invited Pan Am to dispatch its top technicians to Moscow and settle other traffic problems on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Trippe to Moscow | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

Dark Victory. In Nottingham, England, after attending the local movie house three times a week for 45 years, where she was wooed and won by two husbands in the same spot, Mrs. Mary Bettson was offered the seats as a "sentimental token," turned them down, explained: "My present husband and I have pretty well worn them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

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