Word: spat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, however, a 1979 FBI report stated that 40% of women killed were murdered by their partners, and 10% of men by theirs. (Many of the women acted in self-defense.) When it comes to squabbling around the house, women give as good as they get. But a domestic spat is not battering, which involves a pattern of escalating abuse in a situation from which the victim feels she cannot escape. Because they are usually physically stronger than their wives, men are less likely to be battered; for reasons of pride, they are also far less likely to report...
...past, Bostonians probably would not have blinked at such favoritism. Not in these tight-space times. Some ticket-weary citizens reportedly spat on Richards and deluged him with irate letters. Lameduck Mayor Kevin White was lambasted when he declared that he saw nothing wrong with providing "preferential treatment" to powerful political figures who help Boston. Said White: "I do favors if I think it's in the best interests of the city." Said Tony Cennamo, a WBUR-FM radio station announcer: "When I read about the ticket-fixing, I got damned crazy, almost violent. I wanted...
...Greece but a bachelor in America. During passages in which he debates inconclusively the nature of justice, Gage admits his own base impulses: he smuggled a gun into Greece in order to murder the now aged "judge" who had condemned his mother. At the last moment, having spat in the man's face, Gage renounced the crime because it would put his gratification ahead of his duty to his children, his living family. In a final sentence that is prefigured from the book's beginning, as in a classical Greek tragedy, Gage explains: "Summoning the hate necessary...
...delinquency and a riddling class structure put on youth Broken homes, severe wounds. Murder and tragedy come as brutal but regular doses of hard living rather than critical plot developments. With emotional and physical hardships so commonplace, any period of healing is only a restless interlude before the next spat of marauding violence. When Johnny (Ralph Macchio) sleepily confides. "I think I like it better when the old man's hittin' me at least he knows I'm there," the line is both gut-wrenching and believable. With desolation a staple, a bit of fisticuffs and a dangerous chase...
...western alliance healed. Or somewhat healed: the manner in which Reagan lifted the U.S. sanctions that had forbidden sale of American-designed equipment for the Soviet-West European natural-gas pipeline, even if it was made by European firms under U.S. license, touched off a nasty, though probably temporary, spat between Washington and Paris...