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Word: spatting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convicted child molester, but the police do not check him out. Instead of rescuing the young Laotian immigrant from Dahmer, who has since confessed to murdering and mutilating 17 men over the past 13 years, the cops seem to laugh off the incident as a gay love spat. They deliver the 14-year- old to Dahmer's apartment. And as soon as they leave, Dahmer reportedly proceeds to strangle the boy and dismember his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milwaukee Murders: Did They All Have to Die? | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

BUTCH. In The Terminator, Hamilton's Sarah Connor evolved from a klutzy waitress to a warrior woman who crushed the killer robot in a hydraulic press and spat out the immortal line: "You're terminated, f---er." In T2 Sarah is a guerrilla gone south, dynamiting computer facilities, threatening to inject drain cleaner into the veins of her captors, stashing weapons with her own righteous version of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. She is a more twisted sister of Sigourney Weaver's Ripley in Aliens (also written and directed by T2's James Cameron), who proves her maternal mettle by blasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't A Woman Be a Man? | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...barely got to reap the benefits of having his visage pasted up all over Harvard Square. After all, the questionable poster showed the back of Callahan's head, so that most admiring fans wouldn't have recognized him in person even if the 6-ft. 6-in. offensive lineman spat on them...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: The Curse of the Harvard Sports Poster | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

They should talk to the civil rights activists of the 1960s, who were seen on TV screens across the country being beaten and spat on by bigoted whites...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein., | Title: Stop the TV-Bashing | 5/17/1991 | See Source »

...border, a tall, eagle-faced man strapped 14 members of his family -- including seven children, his wife and his grandmother -- and innumerable pots, kettles, basins and chicken coops to a huge John Deere tractor. As he helped extract the car of a Western journalist mired in a bog, he spat out a complaint: "Why? Why do you Americans allow this to happen? Saddam will kill us all -- men, women and children. Why doesn't Bush do something? Why should all my children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Defeat And Flight | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

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