Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviets, famed for their spaceborne dog Laika, said they rocketed two more dogs 280 miles up somewhere over European Russia, recovered the animals-alive. The hermetically sealed passengers were both female, the Russians added, named Belyanka (Whitey) and Pestraya (Spot). Total weight of the rocket and dogs...
...emergency," said Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman last week, "we will buy it. We cannot stick to principles; if we did, Hor Lung should really be hanged." Instead of hangings, the terrorists have the offer of substantial rewards for surrendering, and for going back into the jungle to spot other guerrillas. So far, the government has paid out $165,000 in such rewards, chicken feed beside the peak $87,600,000 that the British spent one year fighting the guerrillas. Even Hor Lung had apparently found a little bribery-rumored to be $50,000-irresistible. "He is." admitted...
...Anteroom Note. Everyone involved in the scandal suddenly became so tight-mouthed and empty-headed that neither networks nor sponsor nor Dotto's owner (Frank Cooper Associates) seemed to know enough between them to rate a spot on the show. But despite the determined silences, the story leaked...
...carried into the New World when Spanish colonists began to settle the land that is now New Mexico and Colorado. First to cross the Rio Grande, in 1598, was the expedition of Don Juan Oñate, whereupon, according to one historian, "Don Juan went to a secluded spot where he cruelly scourged himself, mingling bitter tears with the blood that flowed from his many wounds...
...some 250,000 pictures, covering every major racing event since Sir Thomas Lipton went to the U.S. from England in 1899 for the first of five unsuccessful tries at the America's Cup. Rosy's black-and-white pictures have a style that any yachtsman can spot at a glance: arresting composition, sharp clarity, and most important, an uncanny projection of the yacht's personality. "A yacht photographer must understand the character of a boat-he must see her perform," he explains. "It is my job to do justice to the designer's creation...