Word: spatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candidates got into the public eye as much as possible as the campaign spat to a close last week. But through it all, flashing the personality that has endeared him to New Yorkers even when they were weary of his clowning, fussy, dumpy, outgoing Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia never once lost the center spotlight he loves...
...Japanese surrender offer sent crowds surging through the streets of Buenos Aires, waving Allied flags, shouting democratic slogans, denouncing Perón and his militarists. With the official surrender, a cheering throng streamed past the Subsecretariat of Press and Information. Pistols spat from the windows, killing two paraders and wounding many more. Police charged the democrats...
...Manila, where U.S. Navy carrier planes set an all-time mark for destruction, they went to work while Japs still spat bullets from behind grass-grown earth works on dead ships. Flamethrowers disposed of the Japs; then Sullivan's men methodically disposed of the snips. Sixty salvagers, half of them divers, had formed the first team, clearing 45 "sugar Charlies," (small Jap freighters) from Slip 2 in the north harbor, so LCTs could land ammunition and food. Soon 20 teams swarmed over the harbor's hulks...
...Correspondent Franz Weissblatt was ambushed and shot by Japs on Bataan. The bullet shattered the top of his right thighbone. The Japs stripped, spat on and kicked him, then threw him naked into a truck. Seven days later they dressed his wound with mosquito netting soaked in picric acid. That was all the medical treatment...
...again, out of his feckless shadower (Leonard Strong). He uses judo, to thrilling and protracted effect, to chop down huge, shaven-pated Heavy Jack Halloran. Finally, in front of the U.S. Embassy one night, he confronts what looks like the entire secret police force of Japan. His tag line, spat at an oleaginous police chief (Marvin Mueller) who has had the insolence to try to appeal to him as a Christian: "Yes; forgive your enemies. But first-get even...