Word: spit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spit on yourself without opening your mouth...
...strict, commonsensical Calvinist who believed that God's truth in the Bible was like a seal and "the human heart was like wax that receives the imprint of the seal." Another early teacher, Samuel Miller, endlessly lectured students on such matters of etiquette as why they should not spit tobacco juice on the carpet. "I have known a few tobacco chewers in whom this habit had reached such a degree of concentrated virulence," he wrote, "that they even compelled persons of delicate feelings, especially females, to leave the room, or the pew, and retire in haste to avoid sickness...
...tables, lit by candles stuck in tin cans. One F.L.N. officer proudly exhibited his silver belt buckle with its legend in Spanish: "Fidel Castro for the F.L.N." Grinned Colonel Boumedienne: "That won't make the Americans happy." Contagious Guns. While the tribesmen roasted an entire sheep on a spit for lunch, Algerian horsemen charged back and forth on the plain below, rising in their saddles to fire their flintlocks in unison at the sky. The contagion spread to the F.L.N. troops on the ridges and crests. and for 20 minutes gunshots echoed in the hills. Moslem children burst into...
Last month the amateurish blue-shirted militiamen outside Guantánamo were replaced by 3,500 spit-and-polish young troops in starched fatigues. Many of them, apparently, were trained in three Czech-and-Soviet-commanded camps nestled in the hills above Guantánamo. More than 25,000 Cuban troops now surrounded the Guantánamo area...
Virus B belongs to the herpes family, and the victim may have been infected by saliva-a monkey's spit may be as bad as its bite. Lederle now allows only specially trained personnel, following rigid rules, to be near its temperamental monkeys...