Word: spits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find some gristle or a piece of meat you cannot swallow, don't spit it out on your plate . . . Place it on the prongs of your fork, then place it on the rim of your plate. Don't let this embarrass you. It is perfectly correct...
...began again in the afternoon, talking as we worked, but not stopping. Once in a while one of the men paused to spit on his hands, or to push the black mud off his hoe with his bare foot. We never wore our leather sandals while working. Sometimes we would hoe over an ant hill, and the small black ants would nibble at our feet...
...vivid scenes of triumph and disaster. There is the occasion, soon after the success of Main Street, when Lewis' crisply arrogant first wife, Grace Hegger, was introduced at a party as "Mrs. Lewis." Said she: "Please, Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. Even my dentist says, 'Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, spit...
...Fleury's Ray." Present-day jetliners are already three times as fast as Kipling's night flyers, but his imaginative planes may soon have ray-driven descendants in space. Last week Republic Aviation Corp. demonstrated a "plasma pinch'' space engine that uses magnetic force to spit out a fierce blue flash of electrified particles- a 20th century version of Fleury...
Miller himself set the tone of the debates that have raged over it when he wrote in 1934: "This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character....No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Despite Time, Love, Beauty....what you will...