Word: spats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichy, when word came of the resistance, Nazi stooge Pierre Laval decreed a state of siege for the Marseille waterfront. The German soldiers and Vichy police, encircling the Old Harbor, advanced up the narrow streets to carry out the evacuation orders. The crooked windows of the old houses spat fire. The citizens of Marseille fought fiercely; they had barricaded their doors and they shot to kill. It was not the first time they had had trouble with the Germans. In those tortuous streets and forbidding houses many a member of France's Underground had found safety and comrades with...
...Negroes won some gains. But last week there was bitterness among the Afrikanders. To them the color bar remained a sacred thing. Die Transvaler, Johannesburg, supported by the fascist-minded Malanite Herenigde, warned of the trend toward equalization, cited "horrifying" instances of white women offering cigarets to black soldiers. Spat Die Transvaler at Premier Smuts: "You have forfeited the right to be mentioned in the same breath with great Afrikanders. Do you want future generations to refer to your name with horror...
...Americans and Australians look curiously, the natives with hatred, at the captured. Japs. Once an American sergeant gave a canteen of water to a native carrier to a take over to a scraggy Jap. The native looked contemptuously at the prisoner, threw the canteen on the ground and spat: "Me no give water Japanese...
Uncle Rollin ran his callused fingers through his white hair, spat and said: "Well, Rile, I don't know nothin' about a college. But I know one thing. There must be a heap to larn at college or else your Andy larns mighty slow...
...kneeling statue (left) of Wang Ching-wei, Japan's puppet premier of the Nanking Government. During the Sung dynasty (10th to 13th Centuries) a similar kneeling statue was erected to Ch'in Kuei, China's Benedict Arnold, a cast-iron image that for centuries was spat upon and defiled by the populace in Hangchow. To the Chinese Wang is now in his proper niche...