Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mood for mercy. "They are criminals," he said. "Everybody knows that. We give them a fair trial. Mothers come in and say, 'This man killed my son.' " To demonstrate, Castro offered to stage the courts-martial in Havana's Central Park-an unlikely spot for cool justice but perfect for a modern-day Madame Defarge...
...children, the skin frequently shows wheals if stroked repeatedly in the same spot, but this sensitivity usually wears off. Among adults, dermographia may occur in either sex and show up as redness and swelling around the belt or girdle line, or under shoulder straps or suspenders. Antihistamines are generally effective in controlling the reaction, say the Little Rock doctors...
...Urey of the University of California at La Jolla, another leading moon authority, agrees with Kuiper about there being lava on much of the moon's surface, but he does not think that it welled out of a molten interior. Instead, he contends, it was formed on the spot by the energy of great meteors that hit the moon and melted both themselves and the local lunar rock. He thinks that the present surface material may be something like sand or gravel...
...Cornell-Harvard Ivy League fencing match at the I.A.B. was much closer, but the Crimson bowed, 16 to 11. The varsity sabre trio won six out of nine bouts and was the only bright spot for the home team. Sabremen Manuel Cabral, Don Tingle, and Mike Woolf completely outclassed their respective Cornell opponents and each won two out of three times...
...your Dec. 15 "Men of Miami." Little old middling-good Miami has beaten other teams, too. Sorry we can't play Yale or the other little middling Ivy schools, but we hate to see a lopsided score. Miami could spot any Ivy League team a touchdown or more and walk away from the fray with a victory. R. D. "BEN" LAIME Miami '60 Oxford, Ohio...