Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slides and lecture tapes ("An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of apprehension"), and most chains have beefed up their security forces. Checkers learn catcherlike signals (e.g., can tossed from hand to hand is S O S call). One-way mirrors, secret peepholes and closed-circuit TV help spot the heisters, but eat up the labor savings of self-service merchandising. Nor is a shoplifter spotted necessarily a shoplifter stopped. Grocers run the risk of being sued for false arrest if they cannot find stolen merchandise. More unsettling is the danger of creating a Gestapo atmosphere in a store...
...Commons, there were rafter-rattling cheers, and the Right Honorable Member for Woodford, Sir Winston Churchill, walked in through the great oak doors on his first visit to the House in four months. Pale and less cherubic than usual, the old parliamentarian made his way to a corner spot near the Treasury Bench, chatted with members from both sides, voted twice with the government on minor issues. Next day Churchill's chauffeur-driven Humber made a turn on Parliament Square, collided with a bus. Unperturbed, Sir Winston grinned at the crowds, proceeded uninjured, his car's fender dented...
...leaf motif, sometimes a tie with a bulb-breasted nude. His Stetson sat squarely on top of his head, a cigar grew out of the right corner of his mouth, and he glinted at the world through rimless, hexagonal glasses. Readers of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express could spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster, London clubman, stage designer, critic of architecture (Pillar to Post...
...A.L.P.A., headed by President Clarence N. Sayen, says flatly that "unless the third man is a pilot, we will not operate jets." The pilots' real fear is that the bigger, faster jets will mean smaller airline fleets and thus fewer jobs unless they win the third-man spot. But the history of air travel has proved that each new advance inevitably leads to new increases all around. Case in point: the A.L.P.A. itself, whose membership has doubled in the past six years, despite the introduction into service of dozens of bigger and faster planes...
Moving up to number six, Bob David took a double win, defeating Penn, 3-2, and Columbia, 5-4. Wat Tyler, playing in the bottom spot, lost to the Quakers, 2-1, but took his match from the Lions...