Word: spit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes for a wavelength of light to travel from a cheese-steak on a countertop to one of those jelly-ball things in our skulls that allow us to detect such waves. The amount of time is exactly half the amount allotted to you before fire and venom spit horrifically from the Tommy's counterman in vehement objection to your negligence in retrieving your "food...
...find death soon enough: four patrols in the film, four wrenching revelations. On Chris' first night patrol he watches, paralyzed with fear, as the enemy approaches and another new boy dies. On a second patrol the platoon enters a village that might be My Lai; anger goads Chris to spit bullets at the feet of a petrified Vietnamese, and before the day is over the group's leader, Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), has seen to the slaughtering of villagers before the entire place is torched. During a third battle, Barnes tracks down a woods-wise sergeant, Elias (Willem Dafoe...
DRESS GRAY (NBC). A military-school cadet's drowning reveals seedy goings-on beneath the spit and polish. Gore Vidal's adaptation of the novel by Lucian K. Truscott IV unraveled a good mystery and showed a rare feel for the milieu...
...table partners. The latter objective receives its own 19-entry chapter, in which Novelist Virginia Faulkner's advice is cited: "I ask the gentleman on my right, 'Are you a bed-wetter?', and when we have exhausted that, I remark to the gentleman on my left, 'You know, I spit blood this morning.' " Hodgepodge has an erudite word for just about every purpose and contingency, including, in a section on critics, Ambrose Bierce's review of another volume: "The covers of this book are too far apart." The covers of this one are too close together...
...eerily advanced computerized operation of all may be nestled away on the twelfth floor of Boston's modernistic concrete-and-glass Federal Reserve Building, headquarters of the Batterymarch Financial Management investment firm. Owner Dean LeBaron has designed his own programs for a brace of Prime mainframe computers that daily spit out a list of several hundred sale or purchase contracts, usually for stocks in batches of 5,000 or 10,000 shares. The list is composed by the computers themselves, based on their general instructions of what and when to buy and sell. Up to 23 specially authorized brokers negotiate...