Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persuasive was the mass of circumstantial detail about people, places and customs that Mrs. Tighe recounted in a brogue and in words that seemed utterly foreign to her. $25 an Existence. In two months Bernstein's book shot through eight printings and 170,500 copies into No. 1 spot on U.S. nonfiction bestseller lists overlapping Anne Lindbergh's Gift From the Sea. It has also sold some 30,000 longplaying records ($5.95 each) enabling purchasers to hear Bridey herself as Bernstein recorded her on tape in the first of his six sessions with Housewife Tighe. The book...
...cops. Angered and insulted by student insolence, the police attacked with sabers and (according to some accounts) fired on the shrieking school kids. An army officer arrived in time to see his daughter struck by a cop with the flat of a saber; he shot the policeman on the spot...
Employees of Cincinnati's Enquirer struck a soft spot in the hearts of newsmen everywhere nearly four years ago when they raised $7,600,000 to rescue the paper from sale to the opposition and to give themselves a share in its ownership (TIME, June 9, 1952 et seq.). Last week, though the Enquirer (circ. 206,408) is Cincinnati's most prosperous daily, the experiment came to failure. A block of securities that ensures working control of the paper went on sale to the highest bidder...
Without a brilliant performance by goalie Charlie Flynn, who turned in 42 saves, Princeton might have clinched the game in its scrappy second period. The Crimson's usual sore spot, its blue line unit, again could not ward off opposing attacks and usually only Flynn's cautious play was able to keep the varsity within reach of the tiger's brief lead...
...boondocks uprising is the current fad in Latin American rebellions; instead of storming the capital, the insurrection-aries plan to strike a spark in some comfortably distant spot and wait for the country to catch fire. The strategy worked well in Argentina last September, but a pair of tries during the last fortnight showed that it is still no surefire technique...