Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peninsula area," declared Sandys. The oil-rich Persian Gulf sheikdoms, including Kuwait, remain Britain's special concern and might have to be defended by Britain alone, especially against local disturbances. This meant that Cyprus, lying on the wrong end of the lost canal, was no longer the strategic spot for Britain's Middle East command headquarters. A new base must be found south of Suez...
...flare of significant events, and the weaknesses of the East and the strengths of the West could be better seen. Moscow got the big headlines: Nikita Khrushchev's grab for power, his overturning of Soviet Russia's most durable Politburocrats, his emergence in the top spot, was dramatic evidence that collective dictatorships in time become one-man dictatorships...
...cleaning out opposition in the Ukraine. Four new faces were added: Otto Kuusinen, 76, a longtime Finnish Communist, Averky Aristov from Chelyabinsk in the Urals, Nikolai Belyaev from the Altai Krai in Siberia, and Nikolai Ignatov, a onetime partisan hero whom Khrushchev had planted in a key spot during the preparation of the Leningrad Case...
...your wife was pregnant?" Item: at the party, a drunken guest teetered against Liz. Todd seized the sot, pushed him to the edge of the lake. "My wife is pregnant," he choked. "Will you please be a gentleman?" Liz allowed she might have the baby on the spot, hoped it would be a girl, "because I don't know whether the world is ready yet for another Mike Todd...
...weightiest serving of social significance. The program: the Nat "King" Cole Show, starring the tall, courtly $500,000-a-year troubadour who has played the world's plushiest nightspots and sold a staggering 50 million records. Last fall NBC gave 38-year-old Cole a 15-minute weekly spot, making him the first of U.S. show business' numerous and talented Negroes to star as host of his own TV network show. Launching a new weekly series (Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.), the network last week gave him half an hour to spread his wings...