Word: spat
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...still remember when blacks had to move to the back of the bus as it crossed the border from Washington into the Virginia suburbs, when Marian Anderson was not allowed to sing at Washington's Constitution Hall, when Jackie Robinson had to promise not to retaliate if spiked and spat upon as the only black in major league baseball, and magazines periodically published photographs of some charred black body dangling on a rope from a branch of a tree. "In the 1940s," says Pettigrew, "Howard Beach occurred every night of the week...
Diplomats describe the Taba dispute as "symbolic," if only because, on its merits, the spat is so thoroughly ludicrous. Taba is a 750-yd. stretch of beach front on the northern shore of the Gulf of Aqaba, which is shared by Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Yet for the past four years, Taba has helped chill relations between Israel and Egypt...
...appears in one of the five volumes of Coles' Children of Crisis series, in one of the two volumes of his Women of Crisis books and in The Moral Life of Children. Once again, Coles gets very little out of an extraordinary child who smiled serenely at those who spat on her and prayed each night for her tormentors. His principal reaction is bewildered admiration. A Mississippi black woman tells her daughter that people of every hue are a mixture of good and bad, and the good fights the bad in politics all the time. Coles is again deeply impressed...
...spat was a discouraging omen for a year on Capitol Hill that promises to be the fiscal equivalent of Apocalypse Now. Beginning this week, as the President delivers his delayed annual State of the Union address to Congress and submits his budget proposal for fiscal year 1987, the Government must face up to the full force of Gramm-Rudman, the automatic deficit-reduction measure enacted last year to balance the budget by 1991. Unless Congress and the White ^ House can fashion a budget that reduces the federal deficit (now estimated at more than $220 billion for fiscal 1986, which began...
When these two teams first faced off back in November, the site was cozy Ingalls rink, superheated to help the ponderous but powerful Eli forwards turn the corners into a matched set of hydraulic presses that spat out flattened Crimson players all evening...