Word: spats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doctor at an adoption agency reject a child because he was "too black." Snapped Jones: "Well, I'll take him then." The mayor appointed him the first full-time director of the Indianapolis human rights commission. Jones became increasingly embittered at the racism he encountered. His wife was spat upon while walking with their black child, and when one of his Korean children was killed in a car accident, he later said, he could find white undertaker to bury...
...folks out there aren't all that happy with what is being spat out of our medical schools," Fitzhugh Mullan '64, director of the National Health Service Corps, said in a lecture last night...
...Fisk spat a chaw of tobacco in front of home plate and trotted up to Bobby. Al Jackson came out of the dugout, looking more than a bit distraught...
...intelligence experts believe that Hanoi is trying to keep free of domination by Moscow. But China's aid cutoff will only increase Viet Nam's dependence on the Soviet Union, which has been giving more than $600 million a year to the hard-pressed country. If its spat with Peking becomes semipermanent, as seems possible, Hanoi will have to lean harder on its Soviet crutch. This month, for example, Viet Nam did not have the cash reserves to pay for the 2 million tons of rice it needs to import this year...
...vivid item in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Jordan turned up one Friday evening with some friends, introduced himself to a young woman as Harvey Phillips and tried to strike up a conversation. When the woman, identified only as "an attractive advertising copywriter," ignored him, Maxa wrote, Jordan angrily spat some of his drink down her blouse and then demanded that she leave...