Word: spats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fined on Tuesday. The hubbub has arisen, of course, from Williams' action in Tuesday's game against the Yankees, when, roundly booed after dropping Mickey Mantle's fly ball, Ted returned the salute to the stands with an emphatic allowance for numerical inferiority. In other words, he spat...
...cardinal rules of journalism is consistency. But in the writers' dash for the most copy in the least amount of time, gross errors have been spotted. There is no definite count of the number of times Williams spat at the crowd. The number ranges between two and four. Tax experts are not sure whether he can or can not deduct the fine from his income tax return. The New York Herald Tribune quotes a tax expert as saying that the assessment could be deducted since it is not a league penalty. But the United Press came out quoting a different...
...sacred institutions to people who get paid to hallow them! Now take Norman Vincent (The Power of Positive Thinking) Peale. His approach is 'How to Get Rich Through Prayer!' . . . The books which bring comfort alone are never good books." Of fickle U.S. literary critics, many of whom spat contemptuously (TIME, May 28) on Algren's uncomforting Wild Side: "They like to think virtue and social status go hand in hand...
...around to getting your second upper plate of teeth, the way I am now, you will learn that people who don't like to drink can't write . . . Never trust a man who doesn't feel better when he's tanked up . . . But,' he spat in the spittoon, and his face became serious ... 'I have no use for anybody who neglects his work for drink ing or for women. Work comes first. All the time. Drinking, like lovemaking, is for the evening hours and the short hours of the morning. Only bankers, utility moguls...
There are Polish apples unobtainable by Polish children . . . there are boys forced to lie, there are girls forced to lie, there are people who are blackened and spat at, there are people who are robbed in the streets . . . by thugs for whom legal definitions are sought...