Word: spit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...164th Infantry at Guadalcanal, won the Silver Star. In Europe he commanded the 8th Division in Germany, the 88th Division and the occupation forces at Trieste. Moore whipped a sloppy occupation force into a spit & polish outfit. In 1949 he was appointed superintendent of West Point...
...anything nearly as rich." é"Good taste is a great curse to the nation. It spells only one thing, an inferiority complex. People can't afford bad taste because it means they're jerks, that they don't belong. If this keeps up, no one will spit on the floor any more." é"It's a good life, being a painter. You can live like a millionaire; off to the country for the summer, back to the city in the winter. Art is just love, that's all; when I'm messing paint around...
...Ernest Oppenheimer, the world's king of diamonds and its prime minister of gold, was giving up a bit of his vast suzerainty. At 70, he relinquished directorships in seven of his 30-odd gold-mining companies-a step towards turning over his empire to his son and spit & image, 41-year-old Harry Oppenheimer...
...speed up the process, five truck plows, four sidewalk plows and a number of snow throwers are used. These latter contraptions are wheeled along like lawn mowers. They scoop up the snow and spit it out a chute along the side of the walk...
...Carnegie's retiring director, Homer Saint-Gaudens, recalls that the public "used to spit at 50 yards at a modern painting. Now they say, 'I don't know anything about it-it may be all right.' " Painter Blume had spent three long years candy-coating his enigmatic Rock with slick, Technicolored gloss, and the public seemed to like the taste...