Word: spits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Socially, he is a man who cannot be missed. A man of exceptionally friendly and attractive personality, he rarely comes into a room without attracting attention. Militarily he is a martinet, a spit-& -polish soldier with the driving energy which is apt to characterize good officers. Administratively, he is Hollywood's dream of a big executive: he keeps two secretaries and three aides run ragged; while his satellites revolve around him, he ticks off his schedule with the inexorability of a clock...
This diplomatic spit & polish was the work of a tireless Frenchwoman, Mme. Simone Blanchard, who had been secretary at the Embassy when Ambassador Bullitt pulled out in 1941. She kept the place ready for instant reoccupancy...
...Brief psychotherapy" (as against analyses sometimes taking several years), is best known through the Army's technique of using drugs to get battle-shocked soldiers to spit out their troubles (TIME, Feb. 7). Many psychiatrists fear that apparently speedy cures may really have little effect, leave permanent psychic damage. The same objection has been raised to hypnoanalysis (Lindner's example was finished in 46 hourly sessions). But hypnoanalysis also has respectable support: it has been used by the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kan., by famed Psychiatrist Milton H. Erickson, of Michigan's Eloise Hospital...
Taken tangle by tangle, Knots is instructive and often amusing. From Archer to Yachtsman, it describes the knots of nearly 100 occupations, including the baker's pretzel twist and the parachutist's sling. It gives explicit instructions on how to spit and truss a fowl, lace a football, mend a garden hose, string pearls, fly a kite, string a fiddle, tie a necktie. It offers such engaging oddments as the Norfolk-to-Washington Boat Heaving Line Knot, Department-Store Loop, Cuckold's Neck Knot, Bathrobe Cord Knot...
...believer in poll taxes; he was never heard to protest a Southern lynching; and he stood prepared to filibuster to the end against an anti-lynching bill. He decorated his speeches by "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away, or if there were no spittoons, he would spit on the Senate carpet...