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Word: spotting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think the six members of Monty Python would find the format of a full-length movie inimical to their comic ideal. After all, they chafed under the minimal requirements of a half-hour television spot, shuffling the credits, titles, and skits in a restless assault on any prescribed structure for their product...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Monty Python's Flying Surplice | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

...Martin opened Harvard's 1979 scoring when she netted her first varsity goal at 12:25 of the first half. (The Crimson were shut out, 3-0, in last Thursday's opener.) Junior Sue Field, who had been on the verge of scoring all day from her left wing spot, added the clincher with 4:25 left in the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen Stroke Past Bowdoin, 2-0 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...escort from the Royal Hong Kong Immigration Office is impeccably British and always looking for the shadiest spot in which to stand. It is about 90 degrees and the humidity is hovering around 90 per cent. The stench at the dockyard "processing center" is beyond imagination. More than 850 boats have been towed up to this dockside in the past year. Their passengers stay on the boats--some of which are no more than glorified canoes--for about two or three weeks before there is room in the warehouses (the British call them "go-downs") for them. Inside the boats...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Waiting for a Home | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Last week, however, retired East Liverpool Police Captain Chester C. Smith, now 84, came forward with a far different account of Floyd's death. One of six officers who accompanied Purvis that day, Smith was the first to spot Floyd trying to escape. Said Smith: "I knew Purvis couldn't hit him, so I dropped him with two shots from my .32 Winchester rifle." Stunned but not seriously wounded, Floyd sat up and was immediately disarmed by Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Blasting a G-Man Myth | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Sabetti's efforts did not go unnoticed as he grabbed a spot on the second string; but since Craig Beling preceded him on the roster it didn't look like Sabetti would get his chance to break into the varsity line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matt Sabetti: Combining Both Power and Willpower | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

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