Word: spit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world constantly, moving from one vineyard to another in search of new tastes and bouquets. Vintners treat them like pashas. Wine pros frequently interrupt their travels to get together for comparative wine tastings (during which they seldom swallow the wine, but slosh it around in their mouths and spit it out; they can taste dozens of wines at a sitting without getting high...
Well he looked at me, and he spit on the ground...
...magnitude of the damage stuns. Everyone is tired. Nerves are stretched and tempers short. Families are waiting to see what their neighbors will do-and what the Government will do. And, cruelly, on Sundays the tourists descend, pointing at the wreckage and aiming their Instamatics. Some have got spit on their lenses...
...begins to read the book of Mark to them. As the Gutres come to understand the story, the student wins their devotion. One night, the Gutre daughter mutely offers herself to him. The following morning, after asking the student's blessing, the Gutres turn on him; they mock him, spit at him, and lead him to the yard outside, where they have erected a cross. The story ends. The teller of the Gospel, we understand, is to become the "hero" of his own story; the legend recurs, with each new telling...
...spit out "human rights" to the Second Republic...