Word: spit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dennett expressed hope that the ministers of the nations could arrive at a work-able solution through their three point system which he outlined: 1. First spit in each others eyes. 2. Then question the paternity of the opposing faction. 3. Then settle down and settle...
...party colleagues were annoyed with him for taking too much of the limelight in Paris. Parliamentary committees were mad at him for failure to report home before taking .Austria's first major foreign policy decision. When he faced Parliament last week, the delegates did not exactly spit on him, but it was a close-thing. Gruber managed to keep his job by the skin of his teeth...
...genius, scourge of account executives. . . The man who had built and broken more stars than anyone else in radio . . . who had fired a world famous Metropolitan Opera soprano because she wouldn't sing Some of These Days. . . . Mr. Evans raised his straw-covered head once more, hawked and spit on the mahogany board table. . . . It was always there, the feeling of fear. It hung in the air in the office of Evan Llewelyn Evans. . . . The Fear...
...next picture was too much for W.C.T.U. President Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin to bear; she protested to the studio that youth everywhere might be inspired to do likewise. But the studio set her at ease; the drink would be something unthinkable-Scotch and bourbon mixed-and Shirley would spit it out in horror...
...illustrate this cozy miracle, Dali characteristically drew on his modern and Freudian imagination instead of trying to recapture Cellini's childish wonder. Result: Dali's salamander looked more like a roasting, disjointed dragon on a barbecue spit...