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Word: spats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...petty crime, poverty and prostitution. Last month a gang of white Teddy boys jumped a West Indian laborer and beat him with fists and clubs. A few nights later, another white gang beat up and robbed two Negro workers. The white wife of a colored man was jeered and spat upon by neighbors. Nottingham's Conservative M.P., Lieut. Colonel J. K. Cordeaux, told a mass meeting that it was a "scandal" that "foreigners" should come to Britain and drive up in cars to collect welfare benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Cry in the Streets | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...hardly returned before Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew to Rio de Janeiro for a two-day visit in Brazil this week. Topic A with Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek will be the high-level meeting of American nations Kubitschek suggested after U.S. Vice President Nixon was stoned and spat on in Lima and Caracas last May. At first Kubitschek suggested a hemispheric summit conference, but after Dulles rejected the notion of a ''meeting on a get-together basis of heads of government," the Brazilian President agreed that no more time should be wasted in talking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Top-Level Attention | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...from under him by the surge of boiling green water, he was washed overboard. His shouts were drowned in the roar of wind and sea. But he held onto the rope's end. And the next sea washed him back aboard. As Jimmy clutched the fife rail and spat out the brine, the first mate roared: "The next time you do a thing like that, I'll log you for attempting to desert ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lee Rail Under | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...hall with shimmering sheets of brass. At last the house lights come on, and the customers shoulder their way to the door, hands burning and hearts still tingling with a rediscovery of a bygone Fourth of July-a time when the franks were fat and hot and the firecrackers spat showers of sparks and the drum major's spinning baton flashed in the sun, and the grass in the park felt as soft as corn silk underfoot. Since opening night last Dec. 19, every audience has reacted in this same wholehearted way to The Music Man, Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pied Piper of Broadway | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

Whetstone. In Youngstown, Ohio, when an amusement-park age guesser overestimated Mary Bowie, 33, she whipped out a switchblade knife, spat threats at him, had to be disarmed by police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 23, 1958 | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

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