Word: spew
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...five sombre days in January, 1778. Scene I is a bunk house at Valley Forge. A squad of Virginians, starved, half-naked scarecrows with rags on their feet and bits of coonskin on their heads, have been issued their evening meal. It is so crawling vile the wretches spew it out. A pair of long-hunters are about ready to go home when General Washington and his staff stride by, looking for men with whole shoes to go on a foraging expedition...
...last week Zeller and Wenzel were flying an experimental Ford tri-motor over their home field at Dearborn, Mich, in routine tests. Suddenly blue flames began to spew from two of the engines, enveloping the fuselage and wings. Zeller made a landing, but the ship nosed over, balanced for an instant, fell on its back, a blazing mass. Pilot Zeller, 26, and Mechanic Wenzel, 30, died...
...fire had started when an ill-greased axle grew hot and hotter, began to spew forth sparks, and finally set the wooden sleeping car afire. Flames danced in the corridor, awakened the attendant. With a bound he leaped for the nearest stop-signal cord, found it already useless, burned through...
...conveniently-sized morsels to be devoured by the student. The latter, prompted either by Greek-letter or pecuniary motives, seldom by others, swallows what is profered to him with no questions. Needless to say, such food is ill digested, if at all. At examination time, the student proceeds to spew forth,--there is no better word,--on the examination book the material which he has periodically accumulated. And so it goes on,--this relentless pursuit after courses and credits, equivalent almost to dollars and cents; it goes on producing men who are some day to lead nations and peoples...