Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...management's delicate logistics problem was how to post secret Secret Service men so that they 1) could guard Mamie while she was in or near the swimming pool, but 2) could not see, or be seen, by poolside women. It took considerable brow-furrowing to find a spot-behind an oleander hedge on a bank sloping down from the pool-where the guards would be within earshot but not eyeshot...
Lunar Outpost. It would not be difficult, according to General Putt, for a modified Thor to carry a radio transmitter to the moon and to mark the surface with a visible spot. "If this project were started in the next few weeks," he said, "first launch to the moon would be made this year...
...getting ready for his appearance this week on the Steve Allen Show, Ustinov (pronounced Youstinov) did a telecast for the Canadian Broadcasting Co., previewed a TV film on disarmament that he narrated for the U.N., squeezed in three interviews, a picture sitting, a lecture, a testimonial dinner, and a spot of home life in his East Side Manhattan apartment with his wife, Canadian Actress Suzanne Cloutier, and their two children. In between, he also cavorted through eight performances of his Ustinov-written Broadway comedy, Romanoff and Juliet, which was sagging at the box office when its run was bolstered...
...instruments. The next step was to pour a continuous slab of reinforced concrete 6½ miles long with adjustable fasteners for the rails, which are 7 ft. apart and three times as heavy as railroad rails. They came in 3Q-ft. sections and were welded together on the spot into 10,000-ft. lengths. Merely fastening them to the concrete slab would not do; the temperature of the Tularosa Basin fluctuates between zero and 120°F. If the rails were fastened in cool weather, a hot summer day might make them expand and buckle out of line. So each...
Curb Service. In Oklahoma City, E. G. Albright discovered how the city makes $125 a day in an overtime-parking crackdown: he parked his car at a spot where there was no meter, returned a short time later to find a ticket on his windshield, a meter in front...