Word: spits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edison became the world symbol of Yankee ingenuity and looked and acted the part. Moonfaced, with a lock of hair flopping across his brow and a plug of chewing tobacco in his cheek (instead of a spittoon, he would spit on the floor "because you can't miss it"), Edison had acid-stained hands, an explosive vocabulary and a pioneer's instinct for practical jokes. He spouted the slogans of agrarian radicals, railed at U.S. colleges for stuffing students with "Latin, Philosophy and all that ninny stuff," and fiercely defended his agnostic opinions...
...Parodying Nikita Khrushchev's rasping answer to a question about Hungary during his U.S. visit, a columnist for the Indian Express wondered what the Reds were going to do about "the rat Comrade Mao has thrust down the throat of the Communist Party, and which it can neither spit out nor swallow." With evident cheerfulness, he added: "There is, at present, great danger that the rat will suffocate the Communist Party of India...
...alone of the Baltic powers has nuclear weapons. Obviously he would not get far with it, and was in no mood to expose himself to so well publicized a loss of face. Besides, he said, the Scandinavian governments had encouraged press and public criticism of his visit. "If they spit in my face," he snapped, "why should...
This gaudy story, filmed as J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (I'll Spit on Your Graves), played at four Parisian theaters last week to enthusiastic reviews. But those who had read the novel from which the movie was made should have realized that it was a phony from the start. The Spitter was written 13 years ago by Boris Vian (a civil engineer by day, a jazz trumpeter in a Left Bank cave by night); its publishers claimed that it was a translation from a U.S. novel by one Vernon Sullivan. The public loved its fake sociology...
...Spit & Polish. In London, David Wal-der was fined $11.60 when a constable examining his car found the fenders wired to the hood, a door dangling by a string, inner tubes peeking through the tires, wheel spokes that could be poked out with a finger, a steering wheel that turned 85° before engaging, then locked...