Word: spit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone who loves a parade the military spectacle has the spit and polish, precision, pomp and pageantry that only the British can bring off-an act that will still be burnished bright when the Beatles are balding, a martial display that could convert a Quaker. The near capacity opener in New York last week marked the sixth stop on a tour that would take in 33 more U.S. cities in the next nine weeks...
...coats, and Ireland is selling lace and sweaters (highest bids). Thailand wants to sell its temple-like pavilion. Montana wants to sell a 300-ft.-long boardwalk, a 56-ft.-long public lavatory, and its live elk. Florida is asking $50,000 for Smokey, a porpoise trained to spit out fires and play basketball. Dozens of companies are selling computers, typewriters, video tape recorders and other equipment...
...greatly stimulated Pakistan's economy. India, by contrast, is still the big gainer in the war. Shastri had united the nation as never before. Said one Western ambassador last week: "It used to be you could feed the word 'India' into the machine and it would spit out 'Maharajahs, snakes, too many babies, too many cows, spindly-legged Hindus.' Now it's apparent to everybody that India is going to emerge as an Asian power in its own right...
...have got the bear, now we will get the hare," he recited, stumbling over the words as if he were trying to spit out a memorized phrase. However, he conceded, with his arm around Patterson that "he might stand a better chance than the bear...
Into Politics. White neighbors complain that the "nig-nogs, wogs, wallah-wallahs and coolies" use their milk bottles for chamberpots (and then return the empties), spit in the streets, and boost the crime rate. Many local police disagree. In Manchester, says Deputy Chief Constable William J. Richards, coloreds actually commit fewer offenses in proportion to their numbers than whites, though they are more often related to dope and prostitution, and thus more likely to hit headlines. "As a police problem," says Richards, "they are no more noticeable than the Irish were 25 years...