Word: spit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pull himself together, face himself without flinching. As a first step he went back to Chicago and took his degree. Then he got a job teaching, first at his old college in Salt Lake City, then in Manhattan. All this time Athene was spiritually holding his head, watching him spit out the bile. Eventually he regurgitated the cause of all the trouble: he had been an idealist, a blind prig. From then on he was ready to try any dish to find his proper diet...
...Asthmatics. Noel Franklin Shambaugh of the University of Southern Cali fornia has cured some sufferers from asthma by giving them drugs to loosen phlegm in their lungs, then having them assume a head-down posture. In that position, they hacked, coughed and spit for three minute periods morning " evening until asthma left them entirely...
...Voices" of Pan American bases at Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, Manila. By a complicated use of short wave, all these scattered personalities chimed in with appropriate sentiments which were broadcast over a nationwide hookup. At Alameda a crowd of 20,000 clustered about a platform on the flat, sandy spit, paid less attention to the speeches than to the Clipper, which floated, its motors idling, a few yards off the ramp. There was little applause when Postmaster Farley arrived, looking glum. There was no applause when Governor Merriam, trudging across the beach, remarked: "Ah, footprints in the sands of time...
...going on 15, and looked "like Dante when he was a little girl." She was skinny, and wore a painful plate for her buck teeth. Her three older sisters were beauties; her little brother was a caution (his most prized possession was a bottle in which he collected his spit). Her father was a butcher, a sensible sort of man; her immense mother had swum the English Channel at 19, had now relapsed into a mountainous and silent character. Velvet was not much to look at but she had her mother's spirit. And Velvet worshiped horses...
Clean and fill spit boxes.--Clean knives and forks...