Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was one bright spot in the Harvard performance. First nighter Ernie Hardy, scholastically eligible again, played a strong offensive and defensive game with nine points and nine rebounds...
...Point classmate ('36) of Westy's, served as the Army's vice chief of staff before arriving in Viet Nam last May. When and if the big battle at Khe Sanh comes, Abrams, 53, will be in charge of it. Finding himself in a similar hot spot during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, the cigar-chomping general said: "They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards...
...landing zones are in the Ocean of Storms on the west side of the visible face of the moon, one in the appropriately named Central Bay and two in the easterly Sea of Tranquillity. All are relatively smooth and unobstructed, giving the astronauts a good chance of selecting a spot that is free of boulders, ridges or rifts that could endanger the landing of the lunar module...
...with nervous rapidity. But now not even a white tornado could add much pace to the turnovers within the industry. Eager to cash in on the so-called "new creativity," new agencies have been springing up with all the speed and spiel-and sometimes the life-span-of TV spot commercials. In the wake of the new demand for ever more artful, imaginative copy, "creative" men are climbing into the top salary brackets. "The lunatics have taken over the asylum," says Jack Roberts, 48, co-founder of Los Angeles' Carson-Roberts Inc. As a creative copywriter himself, Roberts...
...four most common vowels have been tentatively identified. Now for consonants. An easy-to-spot characteristic of plaintext n is that it is preceded 80% of the time by vowels. The contact chart shows that ciphertext T is preceded 17 times out of 23 by ciphertext N, O, U, or A. Put T down...