Word: spit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still a spit-and-elastic-band rig," said Rines when it was lowered into the loch, and right he was. Within three days, one strobe light had filled with water, the cylinder containing the Polaroid camera had leaked, and a flash unit...
...military but not in the military, to appreciate the quest for the ideal the officers.seek while at the same time assessing an illness growing from rigidity." Said Washington Correspondent Arthur White of his visit to the Naval Academy: "There was all the brass again, spit and polished in blinding white uniforms, yes-sirring and no-sirring and stirring old memories." Added W.W. II Army Sergeant White: "They get more than their share of raps in our antimartial society, and I thought of Kipling's lines: 'For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck...
...Racists! I spit...
...when he started by asking Mr. Chapman who the judges were, as if it was a military tribunal. There I am laughing in the back row with my hand over my mouth. But when it comes my turn, the last one, I got real nervous and sort of spit out the piece. Still I knew I was one of the good ones because a friend of mine said so, but I felt real drained and tired (we went to the Union to eat), as if I had just run the 440. Competition is sometimes like that, even...
...When they no longer need me, they will spit me out like a cherry pit," Prince Norodom Sihanouk once said about Cambodia's new Khmer Rouge rulers. Last week the prince's pithy prediction came true. In a radio broadcast, Vice Premier Khieu Samphan, the iron-fisted guerrilla who has ruled the country since the Communist takeover a year ago, announced that Sihanouk had resigned as chief of state, even though he had been reconfirmed in that post by the National Assembly on March 20. Samphan said that the prince, heir to a long line of Khmer royalty...