Word: spatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another time, in another place, the jittery man in the grey flannel, red-trimmed suit might have been carted off to the booby hatch. He jerked, jiggled, tugged at his cap. He scratched and spat. In front of 61,207 at Yankee Stadium, and 40 million more on TV, he shuddered through two hours of spasms. But no one who watched the Yankees and the Braves in the last game of the World Series last week worried about the sanity of Selva Lewis Burdette Jr., 30. Throwing a sneaky assortment of curves, sinkers and screwballs, he made last year...
...Dorothy Counts's cruel day was far from over. When she left school, the crowd was waiting, louder and even more threatening than before. Sticks flew at her (Liston Wood Flowers, 18, was arrested for throwing one). She was spat upon (Patricia Elizabeth Smith, 15, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct after spitting full in her face). Dorothy Counts kept her eyes ahead, walked quietly, calmly to a waiting...
...shop. And when the Supreme Court's decision on school integration was handed down, Frederick John Kasper found his cause, headed into the Southland to stir the mob. Ironically, Kasper did not get a rousing reception from most of his fellow segregationists, once they learned of his pedigree. Spat one avid white supremacist: "He's an interloper, an emotional idiot with a martyr complex and a power complex who is neurotically avid for publicity. His actions make him a double agent. He might as well be working for the other side...
...last week voted overwhelmingly (83.3% in early returns) for continuing federal quotas-and high price supports-on the nation's No. 3 grain crop. Prime incentive in the voting: a $1.78-per-bu. federal guarantee for wheat grown under the quota system (v. $1.19 if controls were dropped). Spat Farmer D. O. Yost of Emporia, Kans.: "It's just like offering a kid the choice of 50? or 75? allowance a week, and asking him which he'd rather have...
...pile of twisted metal and spinning wheels. When the wheels slowed, two of the eight were dying. Carried to an ambulance with his foot sheared off, A.M.A.'s Richard Casparian, 25, watched a leather-jacketed form lifted in beside him. "You put him in here with me," spat Casparian weakly, "I'll kill...