Word: spats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dallas' wild wooly right after a U. N. Day speech to the local United Nations Association. Leaving a standing ovation inside, he found several hundred pickets outside fresh from a "U. S. Day Rally", addressed by General Walker. Before reaching his car, Stevenson was struck by two pickets and spat upon by a third...
...lusty ladies -among them a curvaceous Celt with the improbable name of Louise O'Murphy who "looked like a naughty Rubens." The strain was terrific. "When in private she could remove her mask," Levron writes, "she was, at thirty-seven, already an elderly, exhausted and haggard woman who spat blood...
...know what's wrong, I don't know why. Everybody else does." Adlai decided not to pursue the subject, advised Mrs. Frederickson, "Well, just don't hit anybody." Stevenson then moved through the yelping pickets and headed toward his car. A young man spat on him. A policeman moved in to arrest him, and the fellow spat on him too. Stevenson kept moving, climbed into a car and left Dallas' adult delinquents behind...
...popper who sleeps on a board find enduring happiness with an ebullient Hungarian gourmet who sleeps on a rug? It takes an uproarious culinary trek to Staten Island and several draughts of ouzo, the Greek tequila, to resolve this dilemma. Meanwhile, Corie and Paul have a lallapalouzo of a spat. Corie's mother primes a happy last-act curtain with some classic advice on how to hold a man: "Make him feel important. If you do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage, like two out of every ten couples...
...Chinese song-and-dance team in Moscow was fine onstage, said Sovietskaya Kultura, but was positively offensive on a visit to the Lenin Museum: they giggled, yawned and spat. » Red Chinese crowds in the Manchurian port city of Dairen stoned and spat on Soviet sailors, Izvestia angrily reported. City officials even posted signs outside parks and nightspots: "Entrance forbidden to foreigners...