Word: spit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper really hurt anybody," Pope says, "but I'm not particularly proud of what it was." Today Pope has both pride and profit. He will not say how much the paper makes, but he is building a beachfront mansion near Palm Beach. "People who wouldn't spit on us before," he says, "are clamoring to write stories for us-Congressmen, Cabinet officers, even J. Edgar Hoover...
...paratroopers, but somebody will shortly." She also called Maudling "that murdering hypocrite." Suddenly, as the Speaker of the House struggled to maintain order, Bernadette stalked to the center of the chamber and threw herself bodily on the Home Secretary. Arms and legs flailing, she punched, scratched and spit at Maudling, knocking his glasses askew and tearing at his hair. For a few seconds, the stunned House sat and watched. Then Tory M.P.s pulled Bernadette away from the embattled Home Secretary. As she was escorted from the chamber, a group of women in the visitors' gallery shouted "Murder! Murder...
...Luke Witte to the floor to avoid an OSU lay-up. Turner, hearing he was ejected from the game, began swinging. Meanwhile, as Minnesota's Corky Taylor helped the stunned Witte to his feet, he kneed him in the groin and sent him sprawling. Taylor claims that Witte spit on him, but films show Witte to be groggy and passive. As Witte lay on the floor for the second time, Minnesota's Ron Behagen ran off the bench and began stomping on Witte's head. OSU coach Fred Taylor had to drag Behagen off Witte...
Alone among the armed services in an era of increasing permissiveness, the Marine Corps clings to its traditional hard-nosed tradition of unremitting spit-and-polish discipline. In exercising the Executive's quadrennial responsibility of selecting a new corps Commandant...
...liberal or progressive reforms initiated by seemingly well-meaning members of the ruling class as attempts to preserve the oppressor's power, "Let us carry out reforms before the people carry out a revolution." But people do not live their lives on polar ends of abstract dialectics, and to spit in the palm of an outstretched, helping hand in the name of the future revolution is to arrogantly assert one's own self-righteousness and to deny the existence of Daniel Ellsberg's. Freire's own experience shows some of the problems of always positing oneself in absolute contradiction...