Word: spats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...youth to move on; the car was blocking traffic. "He appeared dazed and unsteady on his feet, and his eyes were bloodshot," the officer later explained. So he asked the youth if he was drunk. "No," said 17-year-old Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and, according to the cop, spat a mouthful of ice cream into his face. Hauled into court on a loitering charge (just two weeks after his one-year probation for possessing marijuana had ended), he pleaded no contest and was ordered to pay $50 in court casts. When Kennedy explained that he did not have...
Demolition. During the election campaign, his posters were torn down and his workers harassed. Duc himself has been pelted with stones and rotten eggs. In this campaign's most flagrant incident, an opposing government candidate spat a mouthful of beer over him in a restaurant. When Duc responded with a punch in the nose, he was jailed on a charge of attempted murder and released only on the demand of a majority of the House...
...Hassan el Thani!" (Long live King Hassan the Second) and chanting the Moslem act of faith, which begins "La lllaha ilia Allah" (There is no God but God) just before they died. Then the crack of rifle fire, the angry shouts of onlookers. Before the picture returned, the witnesses spat on the crumpled bodies of the rebels-the ultimate Arab insult...
...such tactics. Ky was recently locked out of a hall where he was scheduled to speak, and 23 of the last 25 issues of his newspaper, the Lap Truong, have been seized. A prominent anti-Thieu Deputy, Ngo Cong Due, was arrested for striking a provincial councilor who spat beer in his face...
...asked if there was not something "more recent." She caught my meaning. "All the current stuff that isn't pure propaganda is illegal. If I had it here, the police would come and arrest me, maybe even kill me! The Committee for the Defense of the Revolution! " She almost spat. "But if you are in Mexico you can get good books-Bauer Paiz and Galleano." "That is one of the most combatitive books!" she said stridently. I bought seven dollars worth of books there, mostly poetry...