Word: spits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same line was connected to telephones manned in the White House by Press Secretary James Hagerty and Presidential Aide Andy Goodpaster, ready to pass the word to Ike. "T minus ten," said Walsh. "Clear sky on launching complex . . . Minitrack clear." Pete Aurand took a horseshoe from a paper sack, spit on it, tossed it over his shoulder...
...forgotten what a man can do Once his body hurts him-once Pain has penned him in where only Pain has room to breathe. He learns! He learns to spit his broken teeth out- Spit the dirty world out-spit...
...what grown men see in women, tells the rest of the story; his insights and outlook are highly reminiscent of Huck Finn. He contributes many a stomach-turning episode, notably his pouring a brew of poisonous Indian medicine down ailing father McPheeters' throat through an oil funnel: "He spit the first dose straight up ... like a geyser, but the medicine soon took the fight out of him." The trouble is that much of Author Taylor's carefully researched Western history is too grim to blend with comedy. But much of the book is engaging and bouncy, particularly when...
...Central Africa. Samples: ¶ "Awake, nationals of Africa; open your eyes and march forward. My brother compatriots, how long will you remain slaves of white settlers? How long will you allow your blood to be sucked by these white pigs? How long will you permit these white pythons to spit in your faces? My brothers, the time has come to be masters of your own countries. The time has come to evict the British from your countries." ¶"The Congo is governed by Occidental thieves who enrich themselves there and suck the nationals' blood." ¶"The nationals of French...
...lots of expensive hospital care all over California and in a dozen other . states. Repeatedly he had slashed himself, then ripped the bandages off the wound and torn it open again with his fingers. No doctor had been able to figure out how he managed to spit blood at will...