Word: spit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Cagney is much better than his thankless role, the real heroes of Captains are Director Michael Curtiz and his five cameramen, who caught the matchless greens and browns of Canada's infinite north-country; the black-and-crimson spit & polish of the Northwest Mounties; the kaleidoscopic carnival of the training field; the silver splash of bushers' planes plopping into lonely lakes; the ominous shine of penguin-bellied bombers groaning up from the Newfoundland shore on their weary way to England...
...interviewed at an institute for child guidance, Dr. Levy chose 20 choice examples of overprotective mothers-nine overdominant, eleven overindulgent-for detailed study. Typical child-tyrants made these mothers prepare meals at any capricious hour, threw their food on the floor if it displeased them, insulted their mothers and spit at them...
...Hawaiian Air Force Commander, Brigadier General Clarence L. Tinker, 54, a spit-&-polish, sky-ripping flight officer, part Osage Indian (Oklahoma), flyer since 1920, chief of Third Interceptor Command...
Topeka: One thing the Kansas press hasn't said and the people are saying is: "What the hell was the Navy doing out there?" Kansans can get over the unpleasant fact that we were given a good pasting, but they want to hit back. The Chew & Spit Club, which assembles daily on the sunny side of Topeka's Sixth and Kansas Avenues, wants to know when we will....The people are calm but determined....A bit of a fifth-column scare, bridges, railroads, public utilities, radio stations guarded....Enlistments up several hundred percent. Outwardly, everything is calm...
...violent and militant speech. Japanese troop transports, supposedly 70 strong, were supposedly still pouring fresh Japanese divisions into French Indo-China, for a possible thrust into Thailand and at the Burma Road, last artery of aid to China (see p. 27). But the Dutch were mobilized to the spit-&-polish point in Batavia; not only Singapore but all of the Straits Settlements were in a state of emergency; at Hong Kong every British soldier was at war post; U.S. Marines arrived at Olongapo near Manila; the British had heavily reinforced Rangoon with British and Indian troops of all arms...