Word: spit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caught the contagion, and Kanfer declares firmly that "relatives are to be avoided." News Desk Editor Margaret Boeth's father, a Mississippi judge, warned her against putting too much stock in the family tree. "It takes three generations to make a lady, and then she'll spit," he used to say. In addition to many distinguished ancestors, Boeth can also claim a petticoat thief in New Amsterdam (fined 20 guilders for the deed). And Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate enjoys recalling, among his Puritan precursors, one William ("Whiskey") Cate, who earned his moniker as the watchdog of sobriety...
...over here up right center hard at work on Ulysses and Mr. Ulyanov is down left at work on revolution. But not to the public of 1918; if either man had turned to you with a warning finger to his lips in 1918 you might have laughed, or spit. Certainly you would not have been struck with awe, and this is precisely what Travesties is about-the amply mashed-in-the-face unfairness of life...
...veteran, Saunders has a passion for the regular army in the same way that a priest or an artist is called to his vocation. Ward sensitively conveys the intimate, though difficult burden of an NCO, who must understand the hurts and fears of his men, yet main tain a spit-and-polish discipline to steel each soldier for the fierce ordeal of combat. To see Saunders and his men cruelly debased after years of loyal service to their country is what gives this play an added poignance...
...said. Much of the criticism centered on Watson's personnel lists, which one aide described as unfocused and deficient in political judgment. The lists were apparently computerized to the point of being almost useless. Said Jordan: "There's no point in cranking up the computer to spit out Cy Vance's name. We know who Cy Vance is." Some Carter campaign aides also criticized Watson's selection of Anthony Lake, a former aide to Henry Kissinger who claims his telephone was tapped at Kissinger's direction, as the Carter transition liaison with the State Department...
...domestic life of other countries." At the same time he implores the U.S. to "resolve to use its enormous strength to root out the poverty of millions of people" on an international scale. Should we continue to pay the world's bills, while the recipients of our benefits spit in our face...