Once the spotter was properly located, two hours before the take-off time the spotterwould emit an atomic spotlight for a half hour.
Of course, by the time the space travelling ship reached the spot, the spotter craft would have moved aside; the light would have ceased, and the star ship was heading for deep space with nothing to impede its course.
A thief does not need the spotter craft to lay his course.
Lacking the spotter to use as a point of aim, Paul was forced to choose the aiming telescope in the dome instead of the more precise cross-hairs on the optical-glass.
The spotter hastened away and the detectives eagerly read his letter.
By sending a good, smart spotter ahead we learned all about the people we've exposed.
Every Hun that comes over the line, you fellows have to sweat for; every minute a gun-spotter or photographer or reconnaissance machine works over you, you pay for in killed and wounded.
The Yankee spotter was not to be permitted to get away with his prey, if the men of Perth could prevent.
New York spotter caught the old man's arm and pulled him suddenly forward.
The Yankee spotterwas in the treasure house of Ranch Robin.
But the Yankee spotter did not witness this sight, for others came before his eyes in a short time.
The "job turnover" was high because the spotter must be young enough to be allowed the freedom of the preschool age, yet be mature enough to follow orders.
He sought other pursuits, but Jake had never had a resident spotter before and the play-facilities provided were few.
A lady spotter at Black Hawk, about 10 miles west of Ellsworth, had reported an extremely bright light low on the horizon, off to the northeast.
The controller saw it begin to move, the spotter saw it begin to move and the pilot saw it begin to move--all at the same time.
Spotter posts on a southwest- northeast line a few miles west of Fargo had reported a fast-moving, bright bluish-white light.
The spotter called the light into his filter center and the filter center relayed the message to the ground control intercept radar.
Ground Observer Corps spotter reported that a slow-moving craft was nearing the AEC's Oak Ridge Laboratory, an area so secret that it is prohibited to aircraft.
About seven twenty-five on the morning of July 1 two F-94's were scrambled to intercept a UFO that a Ground Observer Corps spotter reported was traveling southwest across Boston.
Like the scout, the spotter had to be a fast climber, so that it could get out of the range of enemy guns and run away from attacking planes.
The next month on 3 October, while flying his assigned air spotter missions, Lieutenant Sandager reported Vila evacuated; the Japanese had pulled out.
Mulcahy’s staff continued to coordinate liaison and spotter aircraft and strike missions launching from Munda Field until relieved of these responsibilities by ComAirSols on 24 September.
He was still below the alleged spotter with its straw-stuffed observer when Tam dived for him.
Had she been able to look in at windows at Black Knob, as the good Gremlins do, she might have seen the grandfather and child fast asleep while on the spotter tower a gray-haired woman walked slowly back and forth.
The phone at the Granite Head spotter shed was dead.
What I wanted to suggest was that now and then you take a motorcycle—there are two in the basement room of the Sea Tower—and visit these spotter sheds.
Since the moon was not up, it was quite dark on the spotter stand.
That’s Beth calling from the Granite Head spotter tower.
School, Norma had learned, was out because of a teacher’s convention so the twins were free to go with them to the spotter shed.
As they left thespotter shed Lieutenant Warren said, “It looks very much as if we were heading straight into a crisis of one sort or another.
Betty was sharing the firstspotter watch with Grandfather Norton and Patsy, who had not yet retired for the night.
It was the grandfather who, with his hands, spelled out their story to Beth and Bess, the faithful watchers at the Granite Head spotter tower.
I tried to call from the spotter shed but the wires were cut.
She was not long in reaching the place in the road nearest the spotter shed.
The second report came, not from Norma at Granite Point spotter shed, but from a fisherman’s wife at the village which Norma had visited a few hours before.
A half hour later, just as Betty was thinking, “I should be out on the spotter platform right now,” Patsy came crashing through the door.
That seems an admirable spot for a spotter shed,” said Miss Warren.
On coming to the narrow road leading to the spotter shed she caught a gleam of light up there.
Two hours later Creed, bird's-eye spotter and bad man of the worn-out little town of Hilarity, knocked the ashes from his pipe and held a glowing brand to the dial of his watch.
For it is the ladies whom the spotter mostly spots: the pretty ladies with big state-rooms and big trunks and big hats; the pretty ladies with the little maids and little evening gowns and little pearls.
The spotter has to be the sort of man these ladies like, or else the Government will change his spots.
The United States custom-house spotter ought to look like a detective, but he doesn't.
On this day, when Croly Addicks had finished his modest lunch, the spotter was lurking near the exit.
The spotter was lounging against the check desk, and his beady eye seemed focused on Croly Addicks.
For the briefest part of a second the spotter wavered between duty and discretion.
That won't make me bust out cryin', Chinless," called the spotter derisively.
The same spotter was moving in and out among the patrons, the same derby cocked over one eye, and an untasted sandwich, doubtless the same one, in his hand.
But when Croly approached the desk and reported forty-five the spotterpounced on him.
Experience had taught the spotter the type of man one may pounce on without fear of sharp words or resentful blows.
You made that soda clerk hop, and that spotter quail.
We have a special message and a secret errand for the Head Spotter of the Weather Makers.
And there on a high stool in a high tower on a high hill sits the Head Spotter of the Weather Makers.
There they ran in the snow till they came to the place where the Head Spotter of the Weather Makers sits on a high stool in a high tower on a high hill watching the weather.
When the animals lost their tails it was because the Head Spotter of the Weather Makers at Medicine Hat was careless.
Illustration: There on a high stool in a high tower, on a high hill sits the Head Spotter of the Weather Makers] It was easy enough for the rabbit who has long ears and no tail at all except a white thumb of cotton.
Let loose another big wind to blow back our tails to us, let loose a big freeze to freeze our tails onto us again, and so let us get back our lost tails," they said to the Head Spotter of the Weather Makers.
It was probably beyond the lower extremity of the Pass, somewhere near the present bridge.
