Word: spats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bishop Ford had neither courted martyrdom nor shirked it. On first arriving in China, he uttered this prayer: "Lord, make us the doorstep by which the multitudes may come to worship Thee, and if ... we are ground underfoot and spat upon and worn out, at least we ... shall have become the King's Highway in pathless China." In 20 years Francis Ford increased his flock from 9,000 to 20,000, built schools, hostels and churches. When World War II came, he stuck by his post, aiding Chinese guerrillas, helping downed Allied airmen escape, relieving war refugees in distress...
...Feisal into New York Harbor last week, however, his official hosts could hardly avoid a horrible second thought: What if he saw America and didn't like it? They could not forget that another Feisal (the son of Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud) had been picketed and spat upon in New York...
...went back to his native Hungary for illegal work, was captured, twice .sentenced to long jail terms. Tried on 25 charges of murder, another 17 cases of inciting to murder, Rakosi spat at the court: "I do not intend to justify my actions. I honestly pursued my Communist convictions. I have no cause whatever to relent...
...Party. To the Daily Worker, she was "tops, A-1 in'party circles," was even elevated to the national committee of the Communist Party. Then, in 1949, her career suddenly fell apart. The party expelled her for "fascist and anti-working-class activity." One of her former colleagues spat in her face...
...Indian boys were kept in a room with barred windows, and the younger and healthier one kicked, bit, hit and spat at every visitor. The older boy, who eventually recovered, was slightly more tractable, but for a while the little Indians slept one at a time, while the other kept watch. Bit by bit they were both introduced to clothes and taken on guarded walks through their native jungle...