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Word: spew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SPORTS ILLUSTRATED article on the purported physiological differences between blacks and whites. In that story, among many other things, experts claimed that what Coach Al Campanis more recently declared was true: blacks are less buoyant. If there are significant genetic differences between blacks and whites, the ability to spew psuedohistorical nonsense about racial distinctions is one trait both races have in common and in abundance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Of Mandingo and Jimmy the Greek | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...Council's confusion is characteristic of most people's response to the AIDS threat and plans to deal with it. That's why the proposal to install condom machines in residence halls led to a discussion in which Council members shouted one another down in a rush to spew forth random information about AIDS victims, premarital sex and religious teachings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Combatting AIDS | 11/21/1987 | See Source »

...MOTTO, do or die, and preferring the former I gun the V-8 amid screeching spew of dead dry earth--our yacht is afloat once more, roaring toward the casinos over the horizon, beckoning invisibly but offering no hope or suggestion as to what a trio of young men ought to do when, the roaring onset of hydropowered blotter acid moments away, the conservative governor of California hitches a ride: "Say fellas. Where are you headed?"--but there is a roaring in my ears and I think he is calling us "heads" and so pinned down and in duress...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: On the Road | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

...know yet, and we won't know until we get a better readout on some of the credit problems that might spew out of this. Although we don't know of any, there may be problems in terms of ripple effects. So we have to wait and see. But we're doing what we can. I think the policy moves we've made are the right ones. We're in close contact with the exchanges. And we've just had some good numbers: growth in the third quarter came in at 3.8%, much stronger than we anticipated. That's good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Baker: Wait And See | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

Unlike the car, truck and bus, the bike does not spew stinky fumes and carcinogens. A bike is easy to park in a sliver of space, and of precious oil it needs only a smidgen to keep the wheels squeakless. Riders may turn rowdy, but the vehicle itself is quiet -- a blessed virtue amid the squawk-bleat- scream-grind-growl-honk-toot-wail-shr iek that is the voice of the big city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scaring The Public to Death | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

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