Word: spit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands. The Wamba rescue brought to an end one major phase of mercenary activity, and with it came bad news. South African Mercenary Commander Michael Hoare flew back to Leopoldville to inform Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe that he did not plan to renew his six-month contract. With starchy, spit-and-polish "Mad Mike" threatening to issue his last harrumph, other battle-hardened officers in Tshombe's dwindling mercenary force talked bitterly of quitting with...
Even when that time of decision ar rives, Johnson, being Johnson, has hopes of keeping everybody happy. "When I was a boy," he says, "one kid would put his arm up between two other kids and say, 'The one who spits over my arm first is bravest.' And one would spit and hit the other one and then there was a fight. I try to avoid all that, just as I try to avoid saying ugly things about labor, industry, the farmer, any group in this country...
...time was Johnson's unwillingness to spit over anybody's arm better demonstrated than in November. He had just piled up the greatest popular vote ever, blurring party lines and dissolving traditional regional loyalties as he swept everything except Arizona and five Deep South states. Partly, the scope of his victory was due to his opponent's narrow appeal, but his own strength in drawing 43 million votes was undeniable. He was proud of, and grateful for, his victory. Said he: "The people are pretty fair. They said, 'He brought us through this, he landed this...
...color parody of the "Frankie and Johnnie" legend, is interrupted by a representative of the Society for the Contraception of Vice. The funniest and least subdued skit takes place at "the Old Howard's conception of a Roman Villa," where homosexuality and Mussolini are jointly braised on Cummings' spit; an Ethiopian crap-shooter remarks, "If daze anything worse dan Christians, it certainly am peddyrasts...
Then again, it may be that Sartre has been sitting around like an ugly toad since 1957 walling for the opportunity to spit at the Nobel Prize Committee. Albert Camus was their selection that year. Is Sartre just a poor loser? It seems hard to believe, for he had a deep respect for Camus. Besides Sartre has had Simone, a series of best-sellers, and seven years to recover. Now when the honor which was sooner or later to be his has come it seems a rather ineffectual and stupid gesture to refuse. Peter R. Berreill...