Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central Committee to get me back on the party rails. I ask only that it let me fullfill the duties which have been entrusted to me, the duties of chairman of the Stavropol economic council, and I shall endeavor without sparing my energies to remove from myself this spot of shame...
...Kenneth Leroy Buford, 41, College of the City of New York graduate and a former New Jersey and California voter, was ordered to answer a series of questions, missed one, was disqualified on the spot...
...diverticulum (Latin for a small bypath) of the large bowel is a little pouch or sac formed by pressure inside the gut, forcing the inner layer (mucosa) through a weak spot in the outer, muscular layers. It may be no bigger than a BB shot, or it may be the size of a plum with a stalklike neck. If the neck is extremely narrow, fecal matter forced into the diverticulum will stay there, setting up an ever-present threat of infection and making the condition harder to detect since the barium used to get X-ray contrast may not penetrate...
Saving Grace. Their determined serenity is sometimes derided; says Cole Porter: "I could spot Dick's songs anywhere. There is a certain holiness about them." But with serenity goes an unfailing professional competence. In Flower Drum-Song they do not shrink from such corn as a hula-hooping little girl and that ancient scene about the Chinese maiden who does not understand Western kissing; but there is always a saving grace of humor or taste, or at least professionalism. As their own producers, they ruthlessly cut their favorite songs or scenes if they detect that alarming rustle of inattention...
...York last week only one spot greeted the newspaper strike with understandable equanimity: the Sanitation Department. Reported Commissioner Paul R. Screvane: "Litter collections...