Word: spats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the gate, Karaolis' mother sat on a little chair. An air of smoldering enmity hung over the capital city of Nicosia. Shops shut tight in protest; workers left jobs. Men no longer sat at cafes but lounged sullenly at the curbs; they glared and spat as young British troopers rattled past in Land Rovers, their Bren guns trained outboard...
Working swiftly with his charcoal, the artist was nervous and eager, said he wished he had time to do a second one. "Why?" demanded Uncle Joe. He stomped across the office and stared a long time at the portrait. Then he spat and growled: "That's pretty good. You don't want to do that again-that's homely enough...
...Bedfellows." All that, however, was not the end, but rather the beginning of the most publicized domestic spat that ever livened the pages of British history. Britons watched with glee the dirty laundry being washed in public at the palace, and happily seized bits and pieces of it to raise on high as gonfalons of party politics...
Rolling into Cleveland to shake a baton at the local symphony orchestra this week, Britain's spleeny maestro, Sir Thomas Beecham, 76, chomped a 60? cigar and gleefully spat in his host city's eye. Asked how he liked Composer Frederick Delius' Brigg Fair, a featured dish on Beecham's symphonic menu, Sir Thomas said: "It's a very bad piece of music. They'll like it in Cleveland...
...hour at the border by agitated Communist officials demanding to know where she had hidden her camera and negatives to take such pictures. "As soon as I got back into Hong Kong," she said later, "I wiped the sweat off my brow, looked back at the Communist flag and spat. I'll never go back into that world again unless that flag is torn down...