Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Argot Born. One day in '92, sitting around the Anytime Saloon, Reg and Tom Burger and the Duff brothers started putting some of their old Scotch-Irish dialect words together with some on-the-spot code words into a language that the enemies-be they womenfolk, their rivals, their elders, their children-could not possibly understand. It caught on, rapidly losing its value as a code; soon "Boontlingers" and their friends were eagerly trying to shark (con) each other with new inventions...
...full three months after the Boston opening--and, by now, Dear World's fate has been decided. It has had more previews than any show in recent history, with the possible exceptions of last year's Golden Rainbow (a Steve Lawrence-Eydie Gorme vehicle) and the 1963 Hot Spot (Judy Holliday's last show). Both of these shows were critical and financial flops...
...Harvard basketball team--hoping that injured captain Bob Kanuth may see some spot action--hosts Ivy League foe Yale tonight at 8 p.m. at the IAB. Neither team has set the League on fire and if Harvard can improve its shooting. Crimson supporters, who were out in force last weekend, may have a happy night...
...other Ivy action, a Harvard man finally broke in among the top ten scorers in the League as All-Ivy forward Chris Gallagher took over the number nine spot with a 15.8 points per game average...
...other side of the lines, why were the Allies so slow to spot the buildup? How did 500 trainloads of supplies cross the Rhine undetected? Answer: intelligence officers, like everybody else, tend to see only what they are looking for, and they were convinced that the Germans were on the defensive for good...