Word: spottedness
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Almost as soon as he entered Catholic parochial school, little Johnny was spotted as something special. He was athletic, outgoing and excelled at his studies. He won a full scholarship to La Salle Military Academy, a boarding school on eastern Long Island. There Sununu rose to lieutenant colonel and commanded...
"The cadence was about where we wanted it," coxswain Andy Cameron said, "but we weren't being effective through the water. We spotted Yale a length in that first 500 meters and they are too good a crew for us to fall behind that early."
The northern spotted owl has become to the timber industry what the tiny snail darter was to dam builders -- a symbol for environmentalists, only cuter. In the 1990s, the owl may curb logging in the Pacific Northwest just as the small fish temporarily halted construction of the Tellico Dam in...
Harris is the kind of killer who can seem like a walking argument for capital punishment. On July 5, 1978, just six months after he completed a 2 1/ 2-year prison term for beating a man to death, Harris and his brother Danny decided to rob a bank in...
One balmy night in September 1988 San Diego's Mayor Maureen O'Connor spent the night in Balboa Park, not to take the air beneath the palm fronds but to sample the life of homeless people. In jeans and baseball cap, she watched a series of drug deals go down...