Word: spatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incredible cold gripped the Whitehorse Valley of the Yukon. Nothing moved. If a man spat out of his doorway, the spittle exploded in mid-air with a sharp crack. It was 82.6° below zero; the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America. Aloft in the noonday gloom the wild, arctic winds tore mile-long snow streamers from the peaks and made a great yelling that the valley could not hear...
Then came stage dressing. Hundreds of Old Gene's red-gallused wool hat boys invaded Atlanta to "see Hummon git it." After the legislature convened they jammed the galleries, carrying paper bags full of lunch. They jostled each other, talked loudly, and spat tobacco juice on the marble walls. They damned Governor Arnall. Bawled one: "Say, did you hear they give Arnall a medal at Noo Orleens for bein' the biggest nigger-lovin' governor Georgy ever had?" As the session dragged on, many took off their coats and slept...
...Perfect Marriage (Hal Wallis; Paramount) takes a minor domestic spat and blows it up into a very flossy parlor-&-bedroom comedy. On their tenth wedding anniversary, David Niven and Loretta Young admit out loud that the thrill is gone. They are irritated-have been, let's face it, for years-by one another's eccentricities. What's more, each detests the other's family. And there is that old, old argument about Loretta's continuing her career as a celebrated fashion editor...
...turn. Before the hearing, a Mississippi doctor had told committee investigators that the Senator has cancer of the mouth. Wasted, and minus his lower plate. Bilbo sat in the wit ness chair from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. While his voice clogged and his shoulders sagged, he spat at his inquisitors like a treed cougar...
...rnberg's cold impersonality about the dingy Roman courtroom where two German generals stood trial last week before a British war crimes tribunal. "The blood of my husband claims justice!" screamed a woman as the chief witness for the defense took the stand. "Butchers, murderers!" spat 25 others standing with her, each wearing a silver badge marked "320." That stood for the number of Italian civilians the German Command had ordered killed in the Ardeatine Caves in reprisal for 32 Nazis bombed in Rome in March...