Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious contender for the ten regularly top-rated shows. In the most recent survey, the U.S. export oater called Wagon Train led the pack, followed by a typically British whodunit series (Murder Bag) featuring diabolically clever homicides. One other U.S. show made the list in the No. 10 spot: CBS's ad-lib courtroom drama, The Verdict Is Yours (TIME...
Economists noted two major industries where the quickening business tempo was coming clear. In construction, private housing starts continued to rise in June to a rate of 1,090,000, highest since the boomtime year of 1956. There was even a small but bright spot of light in the auto industry. Although July stocks of unsold cars and trucks amounted to 695,000 units, it was the smallest inventory for this time of year since July 1954. To help work off the rest of the load, Detroit carefully held back from rushing in to replenish dealer stocks, allowed shortages...
...weakest spot in the work is the very end. The Allegro gives every intention of finishing in a rousing climax for all four instruments; but there follow a few more measures, petering out into some harmonics for solo 'cello. This seems a bad miscalculation...
...widen a highway a year ago, they unearthed a cache of hundreds of small clay figures. Callously the highway crew smashed the figures into the roadbed, but their foreman told the story at the sake house that night. Soon a delegate of National Museum curators rushed to the spot-too late. Lost: another priceless trove of Haniwa sculpture, the funerary pottery in the form of warriors, horses, shrine maidens, even ducks, monkeys and chickens found in burial mounds of the 3rd to 7th centuries...
Tray in hand, juice glasses balancing precariously, the famished student rushes off to find an empty spot...