Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took frustrated, gutter-fighter Halleck 25 years of backing losers to finally assume top spot in the Republican House by barely sneaking into it, just as he barely sneaked (not "squeaked") by the last election...
...soldier was so angry that afterward he ran after the judge's car. Flustered, the judge ran him down. The dead soldier's comrades chased the judge to his home and began shooting it up. Surrendering to save his family, the judge was killed on the spot, and then, in that favorite democratic ritual in the Middle East, his body was dragged through the streets. In the excitement, civil control collapsed and the army last week took over Taiz, Yemen's second capital, and for good measure seized Hodeida, the main Red Sea port, as well...
...Spot Cash. In Duncan, Okla., when she developed a rash on her left hand, Bank Teller Laverne Parks learned from her doctor that she is allergic to money...
...crime became the biggest story in the Parisian press, hundreds of motorists drove out to the spot where Dominique had spent her last agonizing moments, and an ice-cream vendor did a thriving business. But the milieu, mostly Corsicans and North' Africans, whose praise Bill coveted, contemptuously thought that he had broken the code by killing his source of income instead of marking her for life. And famed Lawyer Maurice Gargon, regretting the end of penal exile in French Guiana for serious crimes, called on the government to smash the power of the milieu, which he called France...
...Hollywood buzzing. First off, Mickey casually let drop that he had divorced Elaine, by her leave, in Mexico last December. His fiancée-to-be, Barbara Thomason, 22, a sometime starlet, had gone along for the ride. Feeling free as an uncaged lovebird, Rooney married her on the spot. Then Mickey uncorked a real showstopper: Barbara expects a child around September's end. Elaine sidled back into the act to declare: "I won't feel I'm divorced from him until my California decree becomes final next year." Rumbled the judge who granted it: "I intend...