Word: spotting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Plea in Question. Already on the spot were the airport's unarmed Swiss firemen, alerted by the tower, which spotted smoke from the grenades. One terrorist threw away his gun, and a fireman took a second gun away from another. Plunging toward the milling group, Rahamim fired three shots at close range, killing one of the Arabs, Abdel Moshen Hassan, a 32-year-old Jordanian. The police then took into custody his three companions, including one woman, a 22-year-old schoolteacher named Amena Dahbor. All three claimed to be Palestinian...
...South in years. His electric guitar crackles with a kind of voltage that can only come from the gut, not an AC outlet. His singing ranges from a harsh, staccato yell to a high soprano wail. Many of his songs are his own-improvised on the spot, or written down the night before. Like Leland, Mississippi Blues, which he sang to a crowd of shouting enthusiasts recently at Manhattan's Fillmore East...
...replaced by open telephone stands in high-risk areas. Last month the company started sending out a "flying squad," whose 102 members patrol by foot, motor scooter, truck and station wagon to track down out-of-order coin phones. It used to take an average of four days to spot a broken phone; now the company claims that the breakdowns are reported in only two days. Still, weeks sometimes elapse before repairs can be made. As yet, the petty thieves have not been forced to go back to robbing poor boxes and penny gum machines...
Chris Gallagher, now eighth leading scorer in Harvard history and 51 points away from the seventh spot, had 19 in bat first Brown game to lead Harvard...
Harvard will have an opportunity to demonstrate its superiority among Eastern hockey powers in the ECAC Tournament, which begins March 4 at a not yet determined site. The semifinals and finals are March 7 and 8 at Boston Garden. The seedings were announced yesterday, with the eighth spot still undecided...