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Word: cuspidor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally the first event, for accuracy, begins. A range of plywood sheets covered with butcher paper is laid out. Official Scorer Johnny Little, known as "the keeper of the cuspidor," cautions: "No licorice or other foreign matter mixed in." One by one the spitters toe the line, legs spread. They draw two fingers to the ends of their mouths, rock back like drawn bowstrings and let fly toward a distant spittoon. Don Snyder reaches the finals but loses the accuracy contest to Hulon Craft, a distant nephew of old George. Hulon comes to within 1 ½ inches of a spittoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene: The 16th Annual Tobacco Spit-Off | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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