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Word: spits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arcaro got Blue Hills going again but he finished second behind Pilaster. Said Arcaro: "Maybe I should have carried three peas in my mouth and spit one out each time we went by the stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Awful Truth | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...treason for helping Nazi agents who had been landed in the U.S. by U-boat. He lost in the lower courts, but won a reversal in the Supreme Court. The case cost him $800 and a lot of embarrassment. ("My friends wouldn't talk to me. I got spit on in the court.") By then he was making around $100,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Presence of Evil | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...your foot in your mouth and spit it up to the next ledge...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Mountaineering Club Climbs to 25th Year | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...Television," he raced through a brilliantly paced and enthusiastically vulgar show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC-TV). There were some better-than-usual jokes (Berle poking his head between the curtains to ask drowsily: "Porter-what station is this?"), and plenty of corny ones (the first stooge to come onstage spit water in Berle's eye). But, as usual, whatever Comic Berle said or did reduced the studio audience to helpless shrieks of laughter. Even Berle's spectacular records of last year were in danger. Sindlinger researchers made the popeyed announcement that of all Philadelphia's TV sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mr. Television | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Spit & Polish. The British mission to Washington has never (in peacetime) been as big and busy as it is today, although it has always been regarded as important. It has been presided over by a varied and colorful line of ministers and ambassadors: ¶Stratford Canning (1820-23), who reported with lordly condescension: "I have met with few instances of impertinence . . . Chewing and smoking appear on the decline; indoor spitting is also less common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: Some Person of Wisdom | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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