Word: spatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spat started when David Frost interviewed for public television the top allied commander in the gulf. Schwarzkopf said he had recommended that the U.S. keep fighting, since his troops could have "made it a battle of annihilation" that, by inference, would have finished Saddam's regime. To many listeners, it sounded like a man praising his boss's magnanimity, but Bush decided he could not afford the impression that he had "wimped out," as an aide put it. His advisers put out word that the general had raised no objection when Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell phoned Schwarzkopf...
...began a campaign to eradicate every reminder of the occupation. They shredded, burned and even machine-gunned portraits of Saddam Hussein and Iraqi flags. A band of youths used a sledgehammer to demolish a sign marking the REPUBLIC OF IRAQ MINISTRY OF EDUCATION IN THE DISTRICT OF KUWAIT. Others spat on Iraqi bank notes, the only legal tender under Saddam's rule, and tossed them into a bonfire...
Convinced of the possibility of a peaceful settlement, the nations of the world mounted protest of enormous moral force against dictatorial avarice. Saddam spat in the world's face. Students across the United States, in conjunction with human rights organizations, augmented the protest...
...time I was in junior high, I had calmed down a bit. I no longer came home from baseball games hoarse from the incessant bench chatter that would inevitably get me beaten up in the schoolyard the next day. I no longer spat on my palm for the postgame handshakes...
This free-floating anger crystallized two months ago around the case of Rodney Sumter, 39, who was charged with first-degree manslaughter for beating to death a homeless man on a subway platform after the stranger spat on him and punched him in the head. Sumter who was traveling with his three-year-old son and had lately worked in a program to train homeless people in construction, had all the credentials of an earnest victim. Civil rights leader Roy Innis rallied to Sumter's defense, as did editorialists from the city's newspapers. "How many subway riders, wary...