Word: spews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...captains England's ship tonight Steer it serenely to the ports of light! And spew through peaceful commerce and aplomb More issue from Britain's yet resourceful womb...
Tombstones & Capacitators. There are many who agree, and they can point to plenty of evidence that they are right. From Connecticut to Maine, hundreds of small new factories are now turning out products that were mere dreams a few years ago. Around Boston, a cluster of companies spew forth such electronic gadgets as diodes and transistors, computers and magnetron tubes. In Cambridge, Mass., along "Research Row" on the Charles River, scientists from M.I.T., Harvard and numerous companies bend over their gurgling test tubes, devising new products and methods for plastics, electronics and other industries. In Cohasset, Mass., a small seashore...
...most controversial feature of Open's policies is its policy of open recruiting of all students. A battery of giant IBM sorting and filing machines whirr night and day in an attempt to improve the Open student body and make it even more well-rounded. The IBM's spew forth a thumbnail description of a worthy undergraduate every seven and one half minutes. Armed with this information, the Open recruiters converge on the area (the machines always specify an area, though not the name) and sift the local high school youth for the man who mostly nearly approximates...
Other appropriation bills which had been held up by months of wrangling and were already six weeks overdue from the July 1 deadline began to spew out of the legislative machine. Congress passed and sent to the White House: $6.1 billion for a score of independent Government agencies (e.g., RFC, TVA, VA), $725 million for the Department of Agriculture, $511 million for the Department of Interior, $2.5 billion for the Labor Department and the Federal Security Agency...
...Wambling Stomach. Nearly a full year before the shot heard round the world, Lee was buzzing America's mission in the colonists' ears. "The generous and liberal of all nations turn their eyes to this continent as the last asylum of liberty . . ." Titles, he said, made him "spew," created a "wambling" in his stomach...