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Word: spotting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to see him on a competitive 8 p.m. or 9 p.m. TV spot, when the majority of viewers are still awake, aware, and demanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1958 | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

Cheers for the courageous action of Mrs. Marcella Norman in driving the automobile through the showcase window-the only bright spot in an otherwise troubled world. Mrs. Norman's only oversight was her failure to run down half a dozen automobile salesmen and perhaps a real estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1958 | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...many, though silent, Americans who appreciated TV's on-the-spot coverage of the U.N.'s handling of the Middle East crisis [Aug. 4]. Ordinarily, I wouldn't waste my time on the trash that litters the daytime TV screen, but I stayed glued to my set to watch U.N. representatives at work on a grave international problem. If the members of that "peace-loving audience" of popular programs truly cared to preserve the pleasant status quo of their lives, they would do well to pay less attention to the meaningless escapism of Dotto, Play Your Hunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

Just as important is the Argonne plant's portability. None of its components is bigger than 20 ft. by 9 ft. by 7 ft., and none weighs more than ten tons, so it can be flown anywhere with ease and assembled on the spot. Its enriched uranium fuel supply lasts three years. Once produced in quantity for military use, it may become the long-overdue prototype of a portable U.S. reactor for underdeveloped countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Portable Reactor | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...mothballing a show of defeatism, called it a crime as bad as flight from the enemy-until Allied bombers wrecked the dismantled building in a March 1944 raid. After the war, with a new, big Festival Theater built on its old Residenz site, the administration chose a neighboring spot in the former royal Bavarian Residence, and set about rebuilding the rococo house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: ROCOCO IN MUNICH | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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