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Word: spats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went on watching U.N. artillery shells burst against Communist bunkers on a mountainside 3,000 yards up the valley and said nothing for a while. Finally, a 23-year-old rifleman from Honolulu, whose black hair had grown streaked with grey since he came into the line last July, spat on a splintered railroad tie. "So what?" he asked. "I'm going to start holding my breath? I ain't counting on nothing except that old big R in rotation to get me outa here." The BAR (Browning automatic rifle) man scuffed a stone and said: "So what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Counting on Nothing | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...made my marriage look ridiculous"), Sanders took the afternoon off to pack his bags and leave his Hollywood home. Said he: "My wife asked me to get out, and I am in the process of doing so. I have been discarded like a squeezed lemon." For reporters covering the spat, Zsa Zsa (rhymes with maharajah) had a simple statement: "A woman has the right to quarrel with her husband in the afternoon because it is so much fun to make up in the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...more telltale bits of underwear from the Franchot Tone-Barbara Payton-Tom Neal muss-up than did Florabel Muir, Hollywood tattler for the New York Daily News and the Los Angeles Mirror. Last week Actor Tone, who lost the fist fight but won the girl, took revenge. He spat squarely in Florabel's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ladies & Gentlemen | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...must be canceled and will be, in a very short time," he said, and the crowd cheered wildly. Al Midoa, weekly newspaper of Nahas Pasha's Wafdist Party, roared: "We do not believe that the Egyptian nation is less valorous or less courageous than the Persian nation which spat in the face of imperialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Another Twist of the Tail | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...torch looked like an ordinary oxyacetylene cutter, but its bright white flame (burning powdered aluminum in oxygen) ate into a wall of concrete as though it were candle wax. A second torch, burning fluorine in hydrogen, spat a tiny blue flame that could melt the concrete even faster. Either one, explained scientists of Temple University's Research Institute last week, could knife through any substance known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Heat Beyond Measure | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

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