He saw the dark sweat spots flip in and out of sight under the patrolman's swinging arms and in the leather holster that swaggered and rolled at the side of his stocky body, the sun left a smoky shine on the narrow strip of blue metal that ran between the horned handles of his pistol.

Now let us imagine a wing of B-52's, on alert near their `` positive control ( or fail-safe ) points '', the spots on the map, many miles from Soviet territory, beyond which they are forbidden to fly without specific orders to proceed to their targets.

The skyline, the bridges, Broadway, and the Staten Island ferry are only a few of the spots to put on your `` must '' list for New York City.

Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.

We would have preferred, however, to have had the rest of the orchestra refrain from laughing at this and other spots on the recording, since it mars an otherwise sober, if not lofty, performance.

Even a hasty reader will easily find in it numerous blind spots, errors of fact and argument, important exclusions, areas of ignorance and prejudice, undue emphases on trivia, examples of broad positions supported by flimsy evidence, and the like.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

The impression has nevertheless been given during these three days, despite Mr. Rusk's personal popularity, that the United States delegation came to Oslo in a somewhat tentative and exploratory frame of mind, more ready to listen and learn than to enunciate firm policy on a global scale with detailed application to individual danger spots.

When he and the other characters are trapped in a trench under heavy attack, Bertinck, who has been injured in the firefight, spots a flamethrower team advancing on them.

White spots are sometimes present below the eyes, and there may be white markings on the legs and back ; the absence or presence of these white markings may be indicative of distinct races.

They also have longer, woolier hair that moults every February to April, showing faint spots on the head, neck and limbs.

A common analogy explains that space itself is expanding, carrying galaxy | galaxies with it, like spots on an inflating balloon.

The Northern Bobwhite forages on the ground, in open areas with some spots of taller vegetation.

Hot spots in the present civil war. The war started on December 23, 2005, when the government of Chad declared a state of war with Sudan and called for the citizens of Chad to mobilize themselves against the " common enemy ," which the Chadian government sees as the Rally for Democracy and Liberty ( RDL ) militants, Chadian rebels, backed by the Sudanese government, and Sudanese militiamen.

" The album sold 86, 000 copies in its first three months, with the singles " Mono " and " Hold on to Me ", both of which earned competent spots on album charts.

Half of the spots on the 6-6 domino are colored red to make them stand out as the top ranking tiles.

Twelve is known as " boxcars " because the spots on the two dice that show 6-6 look like schematic drawings of railroad boxcars ; it is also called " midnight ", referring to twelve o ' clock.

Based on a single, limited study involving twenty people, some people have labeled Cadillac as one of three " hot spots " for Lou Gehrig's Disease in the US.

Brown spots mark impact sites on Jupiter's southern hemisphere.

A search of historical observations revealed that the spots were probably the most prominent transient features ever seen on the planet, and that while the Great Red Spot is notable for its striking color, no spots of the size and darkness of those caused by the SL9 impacts have ever been recorded before.

There are black spots on the head, and the ears are black.

alt = The head of a light-colored horse with dark spots, showing spotting around the skin of the eye and muzzle.

It has rings or spots of color along its whole length, and can not be wounded except by shooting in the seventh spot from the head, because under this spot are its heart and its life.

A variation of this is to strike the head while two fingers of one hand lightly press and release spots near the center.

The upper pair of tentacle s on the head of Helix pomatia have eye spots, but the main sensory organs of the snail are sensory receptors for olfaction, situated in the epithelium of the tentacles.

Fontanelles are soft spots on a baby's head which, during birth, enable the bony plates of the skull to flex, allowing the child's head to pass through the birth canal.

The plumage of the Greylag Goose is greyish-brown, with a darker head and paler belly with variable black spots.

Upon hatching, the plumage colouring of the duckling is yellow on the underside and face ( with streaks by the eyes ) and black on the backside ( with some yellow spots ) all the way to the top and back of the head.

The pattern is dense short streaks on the head and neck, and scaly spots on the rest of the body ; overall they look much like a tiny Mallard ( A. platyrhynchos ) hen when at rest.

On the head, the crown is usually unmarked, except for a pair of small dark spots, one near the midline of each parietal scale.

Usually, the serval is boldly spotted black on tawny, with two or four stripes from the top of the head down the neck and back, transitioning into spots.

The ground colour of both was light brownish-yellow, strongly mixed with grey and covered with reddish-brown spots, head grey with a dark-red stripe across the cheek.

The read spots on the head and neck are smaller and denser than those on the back.

The hosts, as they are called, are humanoids that appear much like humans, except with distinctive black or brown spots visible from the top of the head, down each side of the face and neck, and down across the shoulders and the sides of the chest, thighs, legs to their feet.

The tip of the snout is dark in adults with some darker spots on the head.

He is also allergic to cat fur (" Dan "), as characterised by pink spots, red eyes, and huge swelling lumps on his head.

The coloration is overall dark gray on males with light patches on the front half of the beak and around the head, and small white spots on the bottom of the tail, but the location may be variable.

It is distinguished from the harbor seal by its straight head profile, nostrils set well apart, and fewer spots on its body.

There are two rows of yellowish orange spots that run from the top of the head ( near the eyes ) to the tip of the tail.

Interestingly, the spotted salamander's spots near the top of the head are more orange, while the spots on the rest of its body are more yellow.

Naumann's Thrush in comparison has a paler brown back and head ; the face, breast, flank spots and rump are reddish, and the belly and undertail are white.