Word: spats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pigeons," snarled George as two birds lit ten feet in front of him. "Them damn pigeons will have this platform all messed up in no time." He spat, forcefully, on the new grass...
George McTernan, carpenter to the University for eight years, looked at the structure in front of Memorial Church--and spat--but not forcefully--on the ground...
Only once in his life, when he was 42 and seriously ill, have his lips touched hard liquor. The doctor pried his teeth apart and forced some brandy down his throat to stimulate his heart. Arthur immediately revived, sat up and spat. "If I had been a drinker," he now says, "the brandy would have had no effect on me. By never drinking, my life was saved by drinking...
...roared it down the halls of Congress, he spat it in headlines: "the archcriminal" was the Secretary of the Interior, hulking, 237-lb. Julius ("Cap") Krug...
...Congressman Paul Shafer (R., Mich.), has worked on newspapers from San Francisco to Paris, but would rather live in his home town, Three Rivers, Mich. (pop. 6,710). Most of Chet's columns are as casual as any street-corner conversation: they concern a funeral, a backyard spat, an old gaffer's boyhood reminiscence, or plain cigar-store gossip. Sometimes he reports technological progress...