Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This war is hard to find; it flares and fades. Some time ago, I watched the biggest fight yet, sparked by the Fatah from a safe spot in a Muslim cemetery near Jericho. Through binoculars, there was a grandstand view of Jordanian artillery pounding Israeli armor. To get around Israeli military censorship, we devised a code with a friendly kibbutznik in a strategically located collective farm by the Jordan, who phoned us tips. 'Birds' were Israeli bombers, 'eggs' were bombs...
...badly against bad competition, and that's why I lost," said Tom Keller, number one foil man on Harvard's fencing team after his loss to an underdog Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute foilman on Thursday. "You just don't know how a poor fencer will react--whether he will spot your fake and react as you would expect or just stand there...
...Southern Cal's O. J. Simpson, whom Ohio State will meet in the Rose Bowl, Hayes professes not to fret. Rather, he plans to spend the next few weeks visiting the homes of promising high school prospects, searching as always for that "quality kid." Says he: "I can spot that good home as soon as I walk in the door. I don't mean the furnishings and the money. I mean whether a kid is loved and whether there is discipline in the home...
Flatulent View, Since each program was padded to fill at least a two-hour magazine format, the arresting segments were buried among too many soporific ones. PBL wasted time too often duplicating the spot news and standard documentary coverage that the commercial networks already were doing thoroughly and more lavishly. There was too much controversy for controversy's sake. And the PBL chief correspondent, Edward P. Morgan, unburdened himself of weekly editorials (always winding up with the line, "That is the shape of this observer's point of view") so flatulent that dial switchers probably thought they were...
...layover as comfortable as possible, once formalities have been concluded. These include movie and still photography of all arriving passengers and a routine interrogation: name, address, citizenship and date of last smallpox inoculation. If you are not carrying your International Certificates for Vaccination, you may be inoculated on the spot or, worse, quarantined at the airport...