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Word: spats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaullist successor, and interrupted the preliminary business to demand an immediate discussion of the streetcar-fare boost. Carlini refused. Instantly the 24 "Cocos" began shouting abuse; one of them threw a chair at the mayor. A woman Socialist thereupon spattered Communist Cristofol's shirtfront with ink and spat in his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Death to Carlini! | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Over & over, the Russian spat out the words Podzhigateli voiny, which means literally "warmonger." However as Britain's Hector McNeil pointed out, a warmonger is "just someone Mr. Vishinsky doesn't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Podzhlgateli Voiny | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...Spat. In San Antonio, Detective D. E. Kelly was out of a job after ignoring reports that a nude man was dragging a nude woman across the street; Kelly explained that he figured it was just "a lovers' quarrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...gathered nicknames-the Little Flower, Butch, The Hat, the Little King. He posed for photographs in gas masks, baseball caps, catcher's masks, chef's caps and fireman's hats. During campaign speeches, he used his horn-rimmed spectacles as sword, scepter and backscratcher; he spat on imaginary apples, kicked imaginary footballs and screeched vulgarly at his enemies. He started a weekly radio program, on which he told housewives how to cook spaghetti, and, during the 1945 newspaper strike, read comics to their offspring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Little Flower | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Carefully, three clerks sorted out 474 bottles of wine, stripped them of identi fying labels. Then they were carried into the presence. There the judges examined them for color and clarity, sniffed them for bouquet, rolled them on their tongues to test the body, then spat them out into a tin pail half-filled with sawdust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEVERAGES: Judgment Day | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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