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Word: spat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then the defense called five Negroes who testified to Charlie's conduct at the ballpark on Ichauway Plantation. All agreed that Charlie Ware was not drunk. They said he had grabbed Coke Malone's arm to keep him from entering the spat between his mother and Bud Walker. The witnesses further agreed that Charlie left when Touchstone's man told the people to leave, and that Charlie did not curse at Touchstone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Odd Case Of Charlie Ware | 8/13/1963 | See Source »

...spirit, if not in fact, by the reactionary mullahs. Bands of wolves prowl openly through the unpaved streets of the capital city of Kabul (pronounced cobble). Native women are seldom seen out of doors, and Western women who appear in the bazaar without wearing a veil are attacked and spat upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bull Market | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...judge, with gray hair and a beaked nose, poured ice water continually into a glass, had the segregationist Albany Herald brought to him each day at about 3 P.M. which he diligently read for the following hour. Before making any pronouncement he shifted the tobacco in his mouth, spat, and then spoke in a creaking inaudible voice, that even counsel sitting in front of him had to strain to hear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report From Albany, Ga. | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...counsel for the State, in its opening argument to the jury, stated the prosecution's main contentions. He argued that on July 4, 1961, at the barbeque held at Ichauway Plantation in Baker County a spat occured between a Negro man and his wife, and her son. Ware, attempting to break up the fight got into a tussle with the son, and, being very drunk, cursed loudly when the white overseer of the plantation, Guy Touchstone, asked him to leave. This was the basis for the indictment of drunkenness in the ball park. Guy Touch stone was then alleged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report From Albany, Ga. | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...takes only one oddball muttering "Those pills will make you sterile, buddy," and rumor buzzes around the base. Great quantities of medicine get flushed down the toilets. Penicillin was whispered to impair potency. Recruits who were supposed to take it daily as a preventive against rheumatic fever often spat out the tablets after they had passed the issue line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: They Won't Take It | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

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