Word: spit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newspapers are cousins in dishevelment: battered typewriters, mounds of gnawed pencils and crumbling gum erasers, a perpetual blizzard of paper. Nor would turn-of-the-century newsmen have any trouble recognizing many contemporary composing rooms with their mastodonic Linotype machines (first used in 1886) that engorge hot metal and spit out lines of type at a lumbering pace. Of all commercial activities, few have seemed more immune to technological progress than the production of daily papers. But the pace of change is now accelerating. In a small but growing number of offices, reporters are writing stories, and editors are correcting...
...police left behind spent cartridges and bullet holes indicating, according to a Federal grand jury, that they had fired between 83 and 99 times. There was evidence of only one Panther bullet. Roughly half of the police bullets had come from a Thompson submachine gun, which spit most of its bullets through a thin living-room wall into a tiny room where Fred Hampton, the Panthers' Chicago chairman, died...
...soft chrysalis spit a lovely golden slit, her slimy infant shape weak at first clung to her husk, slowly an iris her wet obsidian-tipped wings unfolded turquoise & gold, scarlet & deep green, wavered then taking off a ripple running thru the whole of creation lifting into the glowing azure sky over the intense Okumura Garden where I stood amazed watching my image separate from...
...Only one thing is disappointing about this place [Harvard]. Weren't they able to produce one man who would quit, quit the job, quit the power, walk away, spit at it, spit at them and everything they were doing? Wasn't there one fella who would do it? What's the matter with these people? I see all these names--the Bundys and all the rest--they're out on the street when the Berrigans are in jail...
...union, to which half of the Dutch army's 60,000 men belong, a number of traditional military disciplines have also been found unacceptable to the Dutch mentality. The union has already won its case against reveille, 10 p.m. roll calls, wearing uniforms at mealtimes, and similar spit-and-polish regulations. It also got the Defense Ministry to allow soldiers to keep their hair long providing they stuffed it into nets during maneuvers. Last week the union won its biggest victory: dropping the requirement to render a formal military salute. Explained the Defense Ministry's State Secretary Joseph...