Word: spit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chew and I spit...
...direction a thin steel rod, five feet long, three-eighths of an inch in diameter. The rod pierced the lower part of his back, slid up through his body, stopped at the left side of the chest wall. The boy was transfixed like a chicken on a spit, suffered neither shock nor collapse. One of the workers calmly grasped the rod, pulled it out, rushed the boy to Metropolitan Hospital, where doctors made an incision in the chest, fished out a small circle of trouser which had been pushed up by the rod. When they made a slit...
...Nasi are busy everywhere in South America. They distributed several hundreds of small radios and fixed them so that the inocent Spaniard can get nothing else, but what those cultured Germans tell them and you can bet your spit that it is true. They can do nothing else...
...popular song (Nobody's Sweetheart; I Got Plenty of Nothin;'), of many a Negro spiritual and folksong. But it has been passed up by most U. S. poets. The first one to crack this national theme wide open, to taste all its implications and to manage to spit them out in undeviating American language, is Edward Estlin Cummings...
...again & again to watch his forceful hands. When he has finished, a small child scampers up to him, followed by her parents. He greets them, agrees to play as an encore the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Later, over the brandies, one of those inevitable cough & spit drawing-room pundits quizzes the old maestro on what seemed to him an extraordinary departure from concert-hall form-playing the Sonata as an encore. Quietly. Paderewski starts to explain what the Sonata has meant in the lives of the three he played it for. The camera takes over, tells...