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Word: spit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known as pool, has had image problems for decades. The pool hall housed illicit kingdoms of numbers | runners and gangsters, winos and bums, four-letter-word expectorators and hustlers named Fats. Trouble brewed in every corner. Sharks infested the murky waters. "You had to watch out for all the spit on the floor," recalls a denizen of the old parlors in Ohio. "Any women who'd come around, you wondered what they did for a living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Everyone Back into Pool! | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

...maim, not to get ripped off by a bunch of satanic Americans. I sentence you to three years of hard labor pulling the food out of Khomeni's beard. In addition, I declare a national week of prayer. During this holy period, I would also encourage citizens to spit on pictures of the new Head Satan, George Bush...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: Iran-a-Muk | 12/6/1988 | See Source »

...Expectorate -- to spit." Barry Smolin points to one of 20 vocabulary words he has written on the blackboard. The class titters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's Teaching Our Children? | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...student last year who used to call his spit 'luggies,' " he tells his tenth-graders. "He could lean out my classroom window and gather enough spit to reach down to the ground and then suck it up again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's Teaching Our Children? | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

When the Crimson wasn't good, it was at least funny. In late February, Crimson forward Andy Janfaza broke in alone on an empty Clarkson net. As his teammates later teased him, Janfaza could have picked the puck up, put it into his mouth and spit it into the net. Instead, he slapped a shot from 20 feet that soared left of the net. Harvard won the game, 3-2, but Janfaza's missed goal stood out more than his team's triumph...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Parity Did Not Bring Great Success | 11/11/1988 | See Source »

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