Word: spats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Ezra's trouble is chiefly with the police, Bill Willis and his wife are brought low by a prolonged marital spat. Myra is convinced that Bill is experimenting with her sister Joan, a physically overripe 15year-old who flaunts her charms with the naturalness of a dolphin showing off alongside. Before this gets ironed out, it becomes plain that Author Taylor has made almost as close a study of the jealous wife as he has of his Cap Cod types. Best friends of the Willises are the Bensons, whose "detestation of each other had gone so far that...
...third day, 430 Chinese P.W.s turned up for explanations, but lashed at the explainers, spat at them, kicked at their shins and bellies, until Indian guards were called on to hold them back. The Communists too were tougher: they tried to coerce the P.W.s in violation of the neutral commission ground rules, and they were not always stopped by the Indian chairmen. "We have 90 days to explain to you," one explainer said, "and we will talk to you time and again if you don't come with us now." One lied: "Taiwan has been overrun and Chiang...
After seven days of going their separate, well-publicized ways and living in different hotels, Crooner Frank Sinatra and his cinemactress wife Ava Gardner patched up their lovers' spat in his mother's New Jersey home. Later, when Ava caught Frankie's act at a Jersey nightclub, the New York Journal-American was pleased to report: "As their glances locked, thunder boomed and lightning flashed . . . The Voice unleashed a torrent of sound at the sultry Ava. Emotion poured from him like molten lava...
...street supporters celebrated with a carnival of destruction. Communist and Nationalist mobs swarmed deliriously over Teheran's principal squares, pulling down the great bronze statues of the Shah and his father. They opened and denied the Reza Shah's tomb, spat on the Shah's picture, applauded as Foreign Minister Hussein Fatemi cried: "To the gallows" with the young Shah...
...stakes were large. Said the pro-Kashani newspaper Oghab-i-Shargh: "The blood of Mossadegh, Moazzami and other enemies of freedom is now legal." The pro-Mossadegh Jebheh Azadi spat back: "Only traitors will vote for Mr. Kashani." And Kashani himself attacked Mossadegh in characteristic terms: "Such men should be hanged by the people...