Word: spats
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Indeed, Radcliffe dwells in its own little world of peripheral curiosities, its spat of fellows united only by their obsessive imposition of oftentimes-anachronistic “gendered” perspectives on their subject fields. Unlike many of the professional schools over which Faust will soon preside, the Radcliffe Institute is not on the cutting edge of scholarship or research...
...Chinese government wanted it to be here.'' Everything I said was drowned by angry shouts and screams of ''Confess! Confess!'' and ''We will not allow a class enemy to argue!'' The Red Guards and Revolutionaries crowded around me, shook their fists in my face, pulled at my clothes and spat on my jacket while yelling, ''Dirty spy!'' ''Dirty running dog!'' ''We will kill you!'' They pushed me very hard. When the noise died down a little, the man in spectacles said, ''Our patience is exhausted. You are guilty. We could give you the death penalty. But we want to give...
...went red in the face with embarrassment and hastily sat down again. It was a calculated gesture of discourtesy. In 1949, not long after the Communist army entered Shanghai, the new policeman in our area came unannounced to our house. He marched straight into the living room and spat on the carpet. That was the first time I saw a declaration of power made in a gesture of rudeness. I came to realize that junior party officers often used such exaggerated gestures to cover up their feeling of inferiority. ''We have come to take you to a meeting,'' Qi said...
...Great Leader Chairman Mao.'' A girl came within a few inches of me and said, ''What trick are you trying to play? Your only way out is to bow your head in submission. Otherwise you will suffer.'' She shook her fist in front of my nose and spat on the floor. Another young man used a stick to smash the mirror hanging over the blackwood chest facing the front door. He tore the mirror's carved frame off its hook and hurled it against the banister. On the hook, he hung a small blackboard with a quotation from Mao: ''When...
...they spat and spark, so does Moonlighting shine. But even when the TV cameras are not shooting Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis, the atmosphere on the set of the ABC hit series is getting, well, just a wee bit volatile. Stories of temper tantrums and jealousy between the stars are making the rounds in Hollywood. Perhaps to get away from it all, Shepherd and Willis have stepped up the moonlighting they do when they are not doing Moonlighting. Willis, who has been known to croon a note or two on the series, will be making like the New Jersey Bruce...