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From the shade beneath the jacaranda tree the old woman in rags stared at her son's Kikuyu judges and spat in the dust...
...their bodies nourished only by a meager ration of moldy bread that the Egyptians allowed aboard and the brackish water left in their original supply. Their spirits shriveled in a never-ending monotony of card playing ("The one deck we had got shredded"), and they were continually insulted, often spat upon, by the Egyptian guards...
...bean-eyed, lousy, bootlicking Picklewaters. The old man is quite a social thinker. After one brush with authority-represented by an arrogant doorman-he reflects: "If we have to take to wearing bowlers before we can get a bit of simple cooperation from our fellowman, who shall not be spat on from a mighty height...
When the lights went up at the Democratic National Convention one night last week after the screening of a campaign film. National Chairman Paul Mulholland Butler stepped to the rostrum and spat out a challenge. Trembling with rage, Democratic Chief Butler snapped that "one of the major networks has failed to keep its commitment to present this documentary film to the American people." By pointedly thanking NBC and ABC for showing the movie, he put the finger on CBS as the offender...
...cardinal rules of journalism is consistency. But in the writers' dash for the most copy in the least amount of time, gross errors have been spotted. There is no definite count of the number of times Williams spat at the crowd. The number ranges between two and four. Tax experts are not sure whether he can or can not deduct the fine from his income tax return. The New York Herald Tribune quotes a tax expert as saying that the assessment could be deducted since it is not a league penalty. But the United Press came out quoting a different...