Word: spats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prescence? Why was she crying in the windy rain, crying out her gray histories of pain? She moaned and moned again. It seemed the only action she could manage. The wind lifted the sound and stretched it out over this barren wild land; stretched it and swallowed it and spat it out, singing. This was a song of wretchedness, a black wretchedness which she sang to the dead sun, swamped inside the wild rain...
James Graham, a fourth East Cambridge youth who was at the scene of the alleged assault, said yesterday that DeLuca got out of his car to argue with the youths and punched one of them after the youth spat at him. "We would have stopped the fight right away, except that DeLuca kept trying to pull Bergan into his car," Graham said...
...been honored as righteous dissent, where the killing of unborn babies is thought a small price to pay for the pleasure of sex, where the purpose of law is forgotten and the letter of the law is worshiped like a plastic god, where tradition's moral sense is spat upon-in such an atmosphere, can you truly expect a bone-weary citizenry to become indignant about still another Watergate? A.J. VENGLARCIK Struthers, Ohio...
...Meir has taken no side in the Dayan-Allon spat. The man who actually stands the best chance to succeed her is Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, the behind-the-scenes boss and kingmaker of the Labor Party. Sapir, 65, has frequently said that he does not want the job, although it is his for the asking. His refusal to accept the premiership might well lead to an open battle between Dayan and Allon that would threaten Israel's governing coalition, or to the choice of a candidate not to Mrs. Meir's liking-such as Foreign Minister Abba...
...sunshine, Mr. Brundage? In Munich, the Yugoslav water-polo team lost a close contest to the Soviet Union. Displeased by defeat, the Yugoslav sportsmen spat on the Cuban referee and beat the daylights out of his bewildered brother. Pakistan, perennial power in field hockey, was upset in the Olympic final by West Germany, 1-0. Pakistani fans nearly mobbed the referees, the players ridiculed the awards ceremony and roughed up a doctor at the doping tests, and eleven members of the team were forever banned from Olympic competition. Before the Games began, Black African nations, threatening a boycott, browbeat...