Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commodity prices also rose during the week (the Dow-Jones spot index was up 2.40 points to 160.08, futures up 2.03 to 154.55) on the belief that Congress will boost support prices, causing an increase in overall agricultural prices. But, said Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith's Commodity Expert Harry B. Anderson: "Last week's rise in commodity indices is only flash-in-the-pan buying. With most grains and raw materials in oversupply, inflationary pressures are not very realistic and will be difficult to sustain...
...biggest change in the Crimson lineup comes not from an injury, but from the surprisingly sudden rise of Bruce MacIntyre to take over Chet Boulris' starting spot at left halfback. Boulris, usually one of the best runners on the team, was certainly below par in last week's Princeton game, and Yovicsin said yesterday that MacIntyre's showing in past games had simply earned him better overall marks than Boulris...
...hurt in the Cornell game and was unable to play hard for the following four Saturdays. Repsher appeared to have won the starting halfback position in the Cornell and Lehigh contest but was sidelined with an ankle injury, giving Tom Lawson his chance to capture the right halfback spot. "It was more serious than it appeared at first, because Larry relies so much on his speed," Yovicsin said...
...only weak spot in the cast is the trio of whores. Olympia Dukasis, the most important of them, is better than her colleagues, but no one of them twitters through her part with much distinction...
...They licked our hands to see if the "white paint" could come off. After I picked up some of their language, they cheerfully informed me that they no longer ate people, but that their fathers had. Here and there around the village, I would spot a bone that looked suspiciosly human. But they were so damned friendly." First offer of friendship: a meal of pre-chewed (to prove it unpoisoned) monkey meat...