Word: spatting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zeryas, commander of the Republican Guard which had been supporting General Kondylis, strode into the new Dictator's office and demanded tangible spoil for himself and his men as their wages for deserting General Pangalos. Dictator Kondylis refused the Colonel's demand. Colonel Zervas, vexed, grew purple, spat in the General's face, cried: "I made you Dictator and I can unmake...
...They heard with interest that he had been born in Greenwich Village. They asked him to confirm the rumors that he had taken a college course in anatomy to help him in his profession, that he liked to dance, that he read Voltaire, that he neither smoked, spat, nor swore. One newspaper declared that he was "a young philosopher." All his partisans said he was too nice. . . . Few of his opponents have thought so. Tunney hits hard; he is a sound boxer, does not lose his head in the ring, can stand up under punishment. When he fights, his face...
...stuck sticks up hollow logs- suddenly licked parched lips as the hounds began to whimper. They were looking for Judge Powell, Negro. Fool, he had slain Sheriff Dooley. Now they had found him. He whimpered as the hounds leapt about him, yelped. He cowered in the cotton field. Guns spat. He shrieked, groaned, died. Little dun dogs closed in, sniffed eagerly. At Wytheville, Va., last week gentry stormed the county jail; shot Raymond Bird, 31, Negro; hanged his black body to a tree...
...bullet, one of many that suddenly spat out from behind the Mellett house, crashed through the kitchen window, narrowly missing Mrs. Mellett's shingled head. Publisher Mellett's children, three girls and a boy, awoke and lay trembling in their beds upstairs. What had happened...
This exalted spat between two once omnipotent statesmen burst forth when the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, official leader of the Liberal party, set out to give to Lloyd George, Liberal leader by popular consent, a reprimand and dressing down for his pro-Laborite attitude during the great "general strike" (TIME, May 10 to May 24). In a letter released to the press last week the Earl loftily informed Mr. George that he "regretted" the Welshman's conduct in denouncing the Baldwin Government's handling of the strike. More especially the Earl stigmatized Mr. George's refusal to attend...