Word: spatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Castro and fearful for Matos, put a bullet through his own head. Flying into town, Castro jailed Matos as a "traitor," "ingrate," and an ally of two other prominent Cubans purged because of their anti-Communist pronouncements-ex-President Manuel Urrutia and ex-Air Force Chief Pedro Diaz Lanz. Spat Castro: "The three musketeers have fallen...
...minutes later, Paul Orgeron and Dusty walked together across the big, asphalt-topped playground behind the school, where 50 second-grade children, under the watchful eyes of a teacher, were playing "spat-'em." Orgeron carried a newspaper-wrapped bundle and a suitcase. Dusty carried another suitcase. "Teacher!" called Orgeron. He walked up to Second-Grade Teacher Patricia Johnson and said: "Call all your children up here...
...This ain't my kind of place," growled Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa. His cold, hard eyes swept across the well-groomed grounds of the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. He spat on the lawn. "We are paying the bill." he said, "but those intellectuals, those lawyers, picked out this place. This is their kind of place. They like to play golf and that stuff...
...mutilated bodies of Nuri asSaid and Crown Prince Abdul Illah, clowns danced, balloons bobbed, Girl Scouts marched, a giant papier-máché fist rolled by on a float, clutching the viper of imperialism, and a military camel in the parade, poked playfully by happy patriots, turned and spat expertly in their eyes. And under the crisp salute of Premier Karim Kassem-hero of the revolution and a year later still very much the enigmatic hero of the Republic-Soviet T-54 and British Centurion tanks rumbled by in a two-hour parade of military might to the anomalous...
...throwing something more substantial than Joey Glimco's cud. But big (6 ft., 210 Ibs.), confident Sandy Smith has built no barricade around his Woodstock home, where he lives with his wife and four children. "If you cover the mob," he says, "you expect to get cursed and spat at. But you're as safe as if you were covering a Sunday-school picnic...