Word: spatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upon Presidential Candidate George Wallace to avoid a scheduled appearance that might have ignited the tense community. The rites in Boston's Roxbury district included a mural showing Malcolm "ripping the whiteness from the faces of black people who are discovering their own beauty," while his other hand spat fire at "the symbols of white America-the flag, the White House and the false God of Christianity as it is now practiced...
Saddened by much of what he found, Glenn showed the audience the sites of the ancient slave trade and pointed out the tall mango trees "grown from seeds spat out by slaves." He winced visibly at a beggar who had been blinded, deplored disease, illiteracy (80%), and the poached-out game lands that the natives suffer with "silent resignation." "Shooting for the pot" (living off the land) for part of the journey, as did the Stanley expedition, Glenn briefly tried to master hurling the knobkerrie, a throwing stick, and missed his target. But he used a Winchester 70 rifle...
...pair bicker and spat - then tenderly, or joshingly, make up; it is apparent that the glue of their domestic relationship is mutual need. That is reflected in the acting of Wallach and O'Shea, who are matchlessly mated to their roles. Exquisitely coiffed, Wallach is superbly narcissistic, as if he were modeling for an effete art agency. Fat, defensive, submissive, O'Shea would appear to have the lesser part, but he proves himself the better actor in creating an image of a patient, badgered man too good to be untrue to his bullying friend...
...evidence has dried up or been wiped away by the catcher. In one game at Boston, visiting hitters complained so often that Red Sox pitchers were doctoring the ball that Umpire Hank Soar called for it, examined it carefully, found it clean-and in a gesture of resignation spat on it himself before firing it back to the mound...
...times spat...