Word: spits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author. At 57, Edna Ferber is white-haired, handsome and still single. She attributes her fabulous success to the fact that "I write about fundamental things-love, marriage, hardship, vitality, country -the things writers used to spit at." Besides this, she explains, "I try to write in language people can understand. Not primer stuff, but simple language and thoughts everybody has." One of Author Ferber's prime annoyances (it has been bothering her for years) is the opprobrium which she feels is attached in the U.S. to the term "best-seller." "What's wrong with writing a book...
...inaccessible to rocket fire from the earth. Thus it forms an ideal site for supplies, factories, munitions works, etc. Well placed emplacements on this side of the moon, on the other hand, could command every part of the earth as if it were a chicken turning on a spit, simply waiting for New York or Moscow to come within range.... A sketch is enclosed...
Less rhetorically, the disbanding H.G.s talked over old times in pubs and clubs: the early days when they drilled with broomsticks, blunderbusses, even pikes and halberds; the later days of spit-&-polish parades, beach and battle maneuvers; the outlandish lessons in stabbing, stunning, strangling; the long, nodding nights of standing guard...
...Kaishek, he slipped away from Chungking to Nanking. Japan, looking fora puppet, grabbed him eagerly, made him premier and president of the Axis-recognized Nanking government. For this crowning act of apostasy the Chinese erected in Chungking a life-size statue of Wang, naked and grovelling, for all to spit upon...
...Hodges headquarters is businesslike, brisk but quiet. The General is no spit-&-polish stickler but, a thorough precisionist, he insists on detailed planning. If there has been a mistake, he wants it thoroughly aired when he meets his staff at 0900 each morning. He addresses his officers by their first names, but his staffers call him "General...