Word: spits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French at passing girls; they giggled, and swept on. Wearily he jerked his, thumb towards the hilltop graveyard on the edge of town. He said: "My division liberated this joint. A lot of the boys from the 79th are lying up there. And for what? To have these people spit...
...Knowledge, just back from a tour of the South Pacific, told the press he was through with radio. Said he: "I'm just so doggone tired. All I want to do is go back to Rocky Mount, N.C., and sit around with my 83-year-old mother and spit and whittle." His sponsor, American Tobacco Co., tartly reminded him that his radio show still has 26 months to run, hinted at a suit for breach of contract if he tried to quit. The Professor decided...
...fell, the people knew the war was lost. Those who had been in the U.S. (including the merchant prince) knew it was hopeless when it started. The merchant poured three drinks and toasted the Americans: "To your safe arrival." The Mayor of Yokosuka, whom U.S. newsmen described as the spit & image of Tojo, toasted President Truman...
...acquaintance will not help them now. Bob Eichelberger is a genial, dryly humorous extrovert with a consuming interest in people and an infinite capacity for liking them. But he is also a steel-hard soldier with a vast respect for unbending discipline and the same reverent regard for spit & polish that he got at the U.S. Military Academy almost 40 years ago. Tokyo's Japs can expect fair and efficient treatment. But no monkey business. And no favors...
Then the break came. At No. 39 Broadway detectives discovered a portly, florid, mustached man who seemed to be the spit & image of the forger bank tellers remembered...