Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, these U.S. soldiers on the Cold War beat-all Army careermen-put on just the kind of on-the-spot performance that made all the police-blotter calculations back home seem worthwhile. Said Army Major George Kemper into the Communist microphones: "They are holding us as political hostages. We are being used as tools." Other Army men shouted at the Communists: "You're kidnapers!" And when, in a quiet moment, the AP's Topping told the Army's Kemper that the U.S. was 1) demanding his men's release but was 2) refusing...
...whipping block-where prisoners were forced to count the strokes aloud as Sommer beat them with a heavy stick. When they lost count, Sommer started again. One man sentenced to 25 strokes got 60 lashes this way. He died on the spot. Sommer blandly admitted the beatings and even built a cardboard model of the whipping block to show the court. "I can't claim to have hit the last strokes as hard as the first," he said. "You always get a little tired...
...Worry. One day TIME Correspondent Jay Mallin slipped through the no man's land from the city of Guantánamo, slogged north by jeep and foot up muddy mountain trails and became the first newsman to bring an on-the-spot story out from the captives. His report...
Only NBC has organized a major counterattack on radio's localitis. NBC is invading a thousand city limits with its ubiquitous weekend potpourri Monitor, with on-the-spot newscasts that are signaled by bells ringing coast to coast on its "hot line," with appeals to advertisers to switch from the "Top 40" tunes to NBC's "Top 40" personalities, e.g., Groucho Marx, Marlene Dietrich. NBC's pitch in ads: "If you sell white buckskin shoes and bubble gum, by all means use a jukebox station...
...sense, the two paintings and the one sculpture witnessing Dr. Morley's farewell party one night last week were symbols in miniature of her long career. The Diego Rivera harked back to the 1930s, when San Francisco artists were caught up in Diego's own on-the-spot enthusiasm for filling vast wall surfaces with frescoes. Symbolic of what she calls "the incredible years of 1947 to 1949, when this wave of something new swept over us," was the big Clyfford Still abstraction by the man who, along with Mark Rothko, sparked San Francisco's abstract...